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Article #1375Re: VI??? GROSS!
From: Thomas Wolff
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:34
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:34
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Most repliers to my posting seem to be that well accustomed to the fact that vi is a line editor that they didn't see my point when I wrote "arbitrary (!) block of text" (well, maybe "block" was misleading). This is not a block of lines (which is the unit of most vi operations) and since I referred to "elementary text editing tasks" I didn't mean columns either. Suppose I have the lines word1 word2 word1 word3 word4 word3 and I need the text from "word2 " up to "word4" (assume it's a sentence) to be copied or moved elsewhere.If an editor cannot do this with a simple command sequence (and without the search trick burdening me with the task of counting the occurences of the word following my sentence within my sentence, if it can be done that way at all), I just do not call it a text editor. Have a nice week-end. Thomas wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de
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Newsgroups: comp.editors Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ira.uka.de!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!wolff From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff) Subject: Re: VI??? GROSS! Message-ID: <Z8U84BL@math.fu-berlin.de> Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department) Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany References: <LYT86XN@math.fu-berlin.de> <1992Nov12.232530.18958@wixer.cactus.org> <1992Nov13.124435.20019@cas.org> <1992Nov13.152821.6781@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:34:12 GMT Lines: 17