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In article <1992Sep1.163234.20799@Synopsys.Com> wyle@synopsys.com (Mitch Wyle) writes:
>
>I want a good vi (with macros, pipes, ex commands, etc.) for the mac.
           ^^^^^^^

Isn't that a contradiction in terms????

>
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In article <1992Sep1.163234.20799@Synopsys.Com> Mitch Wyle,
wyle@synopsys.com writes:
>I want a good vi (with macros, pipes, ex commands, etc.) for the mac.

That's a contradication in terms, isn't it?

John Wilkins
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>I want a good vi . . . for the mac.

Isn't this a contradiction in terms? ;-)

k

	A good vi editor is NOT a contradiction. Thos of you who
have not had the encouragment to fully explore vi never like it.
It is an amazing editor.
	E-mail me if you want a list of some of the outstanding things
vi can do that no other editor I have seen can do.

Later,
	Mike
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In article <lawton.715610572@armand> lawton@armand.RADC.AF.MIL (James Lawton) writes:
>>I want a good vi . . . for the mac.
>
>Isn't this a contradiction in terms? ;-)

No it isn't, you hopeless dweebs.  There are a lot of things that are much
easier to do in a good mainframe editor, like vi and especially emacs, than
in a standard Mac 'word processor'.

To answer the question, the only Mac version of vi that I've heard of is
called 'stevie' (originally written for the Atari ST).  Unfortunately, it
doesn't support vi keyboard macros, which makes it pointless, as far as I'm
concerned.  I think that regular expression search and replace was functional,
however, but it's been a while since I've tried it.

If you're just looking for a good editor that you can use directly on text
files, I would strongly suggest you look at the excellent shareware editor,
Alpha (now in version 5.0).  It is quite powerful, extensible, and flexible.
You can redefine the key bindings, for instance, and write much more 
interesting macros than in vi.

Tom

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In article <1992Sep4.192444.24921@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu>, pollard@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Tom Pollard) writes:
|> In article <lawton.715610572@armand> lawton@armand.RADC.AF.MIL (James Lawton) writes:
|> >>I want a good vi . . . for the mac.
|> >
|> >Isn't this a contradiction in terms? ;-)
|> 
|> No it isn't, you hopeless dweebs.  There are a lot of things that are much
|> easier to do in a good mainframe editor, like vi and especially emacs, than
|> in a standard Mac 'word processor'.
|> 
|> Tom

  "a good mainframe editor" ? My how times have changed.

In article <1992Sep4.192444.24921@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu> pollard@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Tom Pollard) writes:
>In article <lawton.715610572@armand> lawton@armand.RADC.AF.MIL (James Lawton) writes:
>>>I want a good vi . . . for the mac.
>>
>>Isn't this a contradiction in terms? ;-)
>
>No it isn't, you hopeless dweebs.  There are a lot of things that are much
>easier to do in a good mainframe editor, like vi and especially emacs, than
>in a standard Mac 'word processor'.

Emacs yes, vi no.  And if you want a mainframe editor, try Xedit...
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In article <1992Sep4.192444.24921@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu> Tom Pollard,
pollard@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu writes:
>If you're just looking for a good editor that you can use directly on
text
>files, I would strongly suggest you look at the excellent shareware
editor,
>Alpha (now in version 5.0).  It is quite powerful, extensible, and
flexible.
>You can redefine the key bindings, for instance, and write much more 
>interesting macros than in vi.

Yes, speaking of Alpha and such, anybody know how to change the default
text editor that's suggested for text files with unknown creators?  I
mean the editor that's specified in the message that ends "... would you
like to open it with TeachText?"  How can I change that from TeachText to
(say) Alpha?
___________________________________
William E. Williams, bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu
Divison of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary's City, MD 20686

In <15327@umd5.umd.edu> bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu (Bill Williams) writes:

>Yes, speaking of Alpha and such, anybody know how to change the default
>text editor that's suggested for text files with unknown creators?  I
>mean the editor that's specified in the message that ends "... would you
>like to open it with TeachText?"  How can I change that from TeachText to
>(say) Alpha?

As you typed, Default Application CDEV was being posted in comp.binaries.mac.
Just what you need.

Marty.
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In article <1992Sep4.192444.24921@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu> pollard@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Tom Pollard) writes:
>In article <lawton.715610572@armand> lawton@armand.RADC.AF.MIL (James Lawton) writes:
>>>I want a good vi . . . for the mac.
>>
>>Isn't this a contradiction in terms? ;-)
>
>No it isn't, you hopeless dweebs.  There are a lot of things that are much
>easier to do in a good mainframe editor, like vi and especially emacs, than
>in a standard Mac 'word processor'.

"Good mainframe editor"? Only a dead mainframe is a good mainframe!

Matthias