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Article #33629Re: vi for the Mac
From: Tim Maroney
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1988 20:32
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1988 20:32
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In article <8400037@m.cs.uiuc.edu> rudolph@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > >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. MPW Shell has it. I'd prefer the system to keep a list of recent locations automatically, and you could then bring up the list with a command-key shortcut and select in it. A few lines of surrounding context would suffice. This seems much more Mac-like, and parallels a HyperCard feature to boot. -- Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim These are not my opinions, those of my ex-employers, my old schools, my relatives, my friends, or really any rational person whatsoever.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!think!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hoptoad!tim From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: vi for the Mac Message-ID: <5751@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 25 Oct 88 20:32:05 GMT References: <442@edsel.UUCP> <8400037@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco Lines: 17