Re: [Freedos-user] vi(m) in FreeDOS?

[Mart Z. <mar...@gm...>]

Fellow umlaut user here -- thanks from me also.
After a superficial googling, the only available repo for Oak Hill Vi
seems to be archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/msdos_VI60A1_shareware

Best,
Mart

On Fri, 12 Jun 2026 at 23:54, Thomas Desi via Freedos-user
<fre...@li...> wrote:
>
> excellent!
> thx!
>
>
> > Am 12.06.2026 um 22:48 schrieb Anton Shepelev via Freedos-user <fre...@li...>:
> >
> > Thomas Desi:
> >
> >> looking for text editor vi (clones) for (Free-)DOS,
> >> using the GERMAN language keyboard/setting.
> >
> > Try Oak Hill Vi.  Its manual says:
> >
> >        While in the input mode, you may enter any ASCII character into
> >        your text by holding down the <alt> key and entering the decimal
> >        value of the character from the number keypad portion of the
> >        keyboard.  For example pressing <alt>128 and then releasing the
> >        <alt> key will produce the character Ђ.  If you are typing in a
> >        language other than English you may have frequent need for some of
> >        these characters.  They may be mapped with the ":map!" command into
> >        function key or other keystroke combinations that you find useful.
> >        For example, the command sequence
> >
> > Perhaps, you could add Genman-specific mapping for insert mode via :map!
> > in that editor.
> >
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