Re: Aztec C/Shell DOES HAVE a 'vi' editor

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From: Joseph Fasel
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1988 14:24

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In article <933@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>, gae@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:
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> >In article <15424@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> steve@violet.berkeley.edu 
> >	(Steve Goldfield) writes:
> >>What Mac Editor has the complex search/replace patterns
> >>available in vi (by far its best feature)?
> 
> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) replies:
> >MPW Shell has this stuff.
> 
> I could never figure out how to get MPW to find matching parentheses.  I can
> do this with Emacs regular expressions.

How can any kind of regular expression possibly find matching parentheses?
No parenthesis language is regular.

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From: jhf@lanl.gov (Joseph Fasel)
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Subject: Re: Aztec C/Shell DOES HAVE a 'vi' editor
Summary: regular expressions and parentheses
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Date: 14 Oct 88 14:24:20 GMT
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