This editor is especially useful for friends of the Vi editor, who do not want to give up the little conveniences offered by Windows. Many people think the advantages of WinVi suggest a turn to this editor.
This is a small selection of the features presented by WinVi:
- compatibility with Windows Notepad was my main goal
- nevertheless, it ought to be highly compatible with Vi
- a hexadecimal edit mode is available for editing binary files
- speedy program start because it is avoiding use of DLLs, MFC, etc.
- extremely large files editable with nearly no limitation by virtual memory
- (There is, however, a theoretical limit at 2 GByte)
- freely selectable background bitmap
- any font (variable spacing, TrueType, etc.)
- simple and clear handling with the availability of a toolbar and a status line
- support for Unix text file format
- fast change of character mappings for DOS files
- automatic word completion in command line (tab key)
- print support with choosable font (double column available)
- multiple language support (English, French, Spanish, or German)
- support of mouse wheels
Though WinVi is the superduper multi-purpose text editor you have always been waiting for,
there are a few inconveniences compared with other standard editors available for Windows:
- no automatic line splitting (planned in several variations)
- many ex commands are still unimplemented (e. g. :g)
- no installation program yet
- multi-byte character sets are not tested and probably have bugs
- no support for right-to-left writing direction
- still no hexadecimal printing support
- no MDI support (not planned for the future)
- no automatic insertion of date and time (a feature of Notepad I don't like)

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