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Article #33628Re: vi for the Mac
From: Douglas E. Strauss
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1988 16:23
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1988 16:23
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In article <8400037@m.cs.uiuc.edu> rudolph@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>While in general I certainly prefer Mac style editing to vi, there is one vi
>feature I find extremely useful which has yet to show up in any Mac editor I
>have seen, and that is the ability to mark a location and quickly return to
>it. It's a simple two keystroke command in vi ('m' followed by a letter to
>name the mark), and returning is another 2 stroke command. It's very useful
>in navigating large programs, or any large documents for that matter.
>Anyone have any idea why it hasn't been implemented in any major editors, or
>know of any that do have it?
What about trying search/find in Word of hidden text, haven't tried it but seemslike could work provided you rember the text and is unambigous.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!orstcs!ladder!strausd From: strausd@ladder.cs.orst.edu (Douglas E. Strauss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: vi for the Mac Message-ID: <7006@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 25 Oct 88 16:23:14 GMT References: <442@edsel.UUCP> <8400037@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU Reply-To: strausd@ladder.UUCP (Douglas E. Strauss) Organization: Oregon State Universtiy - CS - Corvallis, Oregon Lines: 12