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Article #3251Re: vi vs. emacs
From: Randal L. Schwartz Stonehenge
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 1988 16:00
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 1988 16:00
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In article <678@buengc.BU.EDU>, bph@buengc (Blair P. Houghton) writes: | In article <12767@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: | >Does it document the `_' command? (_ acts like 0, but is line oriented | >rather than character oriented.) | | I just looked for it. '_' is identical to '^', and the guide lists | the latter. I don't know how you can say it's line-oriented, though. Not quite. Using the '_' as a target of a command is like doubling the letter, hence it is redundant, and as such, undocumented. For example, '5d_' is like '5dd', not '5d^'. (I don't think the last one works, but haven't invoked vi for more than 5 minutes in the last two weeks, so I don't remember.) A former vi hacker (converted to GNU emacs)... -- Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 on contract to BiiN Technical Publications (for now :-), Hillsboro, Oregon <merlyn@intelob.intel.com> or ...!tektronix!ogcvax!omepd!intelob!merlyn Standard disclaimer: I *am* my employer!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!littlei!intelisc!omepd!merlyn From: merlyn@intelob (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: vi vs. emacs Message-ID: <3721@omepd> Date: 4 Aug 88 16:00:54 GMT References: <16697@brl-adm.ARPA> <517@uva.UUCP> <661@buengc.BU.EDU> <12767@mimsy.UUCP> <678@buengc.BU.EDU> Sender: news@omepd Reply-To: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via BiiN, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA Lines: 21 In-reply-to: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)