reasonably working editor

hi all
i am an *nix guy, for internet, mail etc i use w2k and have
a probl. (i know, i should not repeat):

i cannot live w/ the dos editors, cut+paste, arrows, ctrl-keyes,
home, delete, klicks ..... and other more.

i downloaded a 'vim' version for w2k, a lot of stupid colors and
scarcely 10% the functionallity of a standard *nix 'vi'

can somebody help me to find a 'reasonably working' vi for w2k,
maybe also a 'sed' ?
tia.

ps:
maybe the wrong forum, but how can i elucidate a dos¦win
guy what 'vi' and 'sed' are ? and what they do ?

all happy w/ dos-editors ?

You could always just switch to linux for email, internet etc and use vi there.

If you're using windows your going to get stuck with using a gui editor of some type as windows is a gui based OS, or with some crappy wannabe version of vi/vim etc.

danke steven, aber
my wife does not know *nix, so i am damned to use w2k and not really want to reboot
every time ...

I like textpad. Not really what you want with VI functions, but its pretty useful if you learn the shortcuts and write a couple of macros, plus its a decent java editor

Besides cosmetic differences, what's wrong with the Windows version of vim?

I use vim both on FreeBSD at home and Windows XP at work..
And I must be missing something, because I'm not quite as troubled as yourself.

do you know VI ?
i need something like
:g/^/m0
or
:.s/..*/\/***REM & ***\//
and
:.s/\/\**REM \(.*\) \**\//\1/
AND map this commands in functions-keyes OR short-cuts
cosmetics ?

btw: recently i (must, thank you bill) reinstalled w2k, so i lost the vim exec
and don't remember where from i downloaded it.

from vim.org you can download vim (including for Windows)

I don't think you'll have the same problems you had before with whatever you were using.

Use the original

You can install a more-or-less complete unix environment in windows: Cygwin
It is a port of the original linux programs to windows. But more than that: I am using eg it to run an X server on my windows machine for XDMCP connections.

hth,
M.