GUI Interfaces
elvis, Vim, and vile provide graphical user interface (GUI) versions that can take advantage of a bitmapped display and mouse. Besides supporting X Windows under Unix, support for Microsoft Windows or other windowing systems may also be available. Table 8-1 summarizes the available GUIs for the different clones.
Table 8-1. Available GUIs
| Editor | Terminal | X11 | Microsoft Windows | OS/2 | BeOS | Macintosh | Amiga | QNX | OpenVMS |
| Vim | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
| nvi | • | ||||||||
| elvis | • | • | • | • | |||||
| vile | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
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