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8.8 Editor Comparison Summary

Most of the clones support most or all of the features described above. Table 8.9 summarizes what each editor supports. Of course, the table does not tell the full story; the details are provided in each one's individual chapter.


Table 8.9: Feature Summary Chart
Featurenvielvisvimvile
Multiwindow editingXXXX
GUIXXX
Extended regular expressionsXXXX
Enhanced tagsXXX
Tag stacksXXXX
Arbitrary length linesXXXX
8-bit dataXXXX
Infinite undoXXXX
Incremental searchingXXX
Left-right scrollingXXXX
Mode indicatorsXXXX
Visual modeXXX
Edit-Compile SpeedupXXX
Syntax HighlightingXXX
Multiple OS supportXXX


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