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I had said that vi's global search-and-replace surpasses emacs. Deven
was surprised:

In article <SHADOW.89Aug9002631@pawl.rpi.edu> shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes:
>*That* I find hard to believe.  GNU Emacs has not only query-replace
>(a very nice function) but also query-replace-regexp.

Correction, I was wrong. I hadn't used any version of emacs very much
since about 1981 or so; I speaking on the basis of conversations with emacs
fans. Turns out I was misinformed. GNU emacs adopted all of vi's regular
expression features, plus egrep alternation, long ago (and yes, vi was
the influence). I found this out when I actually checked the GNU Emacs Manual
this morning.

I disagree with the default bindings (no default binding backward search),
but what else is new...easy enough to customize.

> [A regexp I-search would be pretty incredible...]

The manual says it's supported: "isearch-forward-regexp".

So given that, only my conditioned reflexes stand in the way of my
switching, and I've been trying to talk myself into taking the hit
for about a year now. Someday soon...Hmmm. I wonder if any of the
Amiga Emacs' support as full a regexp set as full Gnu Emacs?
	Doug
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