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Re: vi for the Mac

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From: Brian Matthews
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1988 19:29
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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.

QUED and MPW Shell both do this.  QUED has any number of named marks, and
one special mark which gets exchanged with the current location with
command-`.  I would suspect Nissus would have the same thing.

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Brian L. Matthews  blm@cxsea.UUCP   ...{mnetor,uw-beaver!ssc-vax}!cxsea!blm
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From: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
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Subject: Re: vi for the Mac
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