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Re: good vi editor for the mac

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From: Zach, the Lego Maniac
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 02:08
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bell@teal.csn.org (Bell Scott) writes:

>In article <CKD.92Sep8115511@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
>>JW> == Jon W{tte <d88-jwa@black.nada.kth.se> 
>>
>> >> To Tom:  Just what can't you do in MSWord 5.0 that you can do in emacs?
>>
>> JW> Keyboard macros
>> JW> Toggle words
>> JW> Execute other program
>> JW> Towers of Hanoi (OK, OK)
>>
>>Read news, send/read email, do blinking-brace matching, do syntax-based
>>indentation...
>>--
>><ckd@eff.org>       | *300: 20 DD FB 60

>	Funny, I'm reading News while MSWord is open....

>	Well, if you want a good PROGRAMMING editor, simply click in the
>desktop, double-click on Think 'C' and use it's editor.  (Or get A/Ux and
>use TextEdit.

Think C may be a good compiler but THE EDITOR SUCKS!!! There is no
popup menu for functions, braces are not matched. there is no macros
etc. Alpha is about a 1000 times better, and emacs is even a bit
better than that. 

As for mac word prossesors try Nisus, it has a lot of programer's
features.

ps look for mac gnu sed soon (I'm working on it but I havent had much time)

>Scott R. Bell

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From: zkessin@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Zach, the Lego Maniac)
Subject: Re: good vi editor for the mac
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