Re: "Real" Vi and Edt emulation packages?

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From: Aamod Sane
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1991 17:04

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bill@inls1.ucsd.edu (Bill Reynolds) writes:

>In article <9104252257.AA18628@galahad.cs.purdue.edu> svb@CS.PURDUE.EDU (Stephan Bechtolsheim) writes:
>> has nothing to do with emacs. Check the manual: you can
>> define what a word is etc., so there is no problem with that.
>> 
>> StvB


>I've thought about how to do this, since emacs' idea of words drive me
>crazy too.  I've considered altering the word functions in vip.el to
>use regexp-forward-search to look for patterns like P+W+\|P+W+, where
>W is a regexp representing all word constituent characters (like in
>the syntax table), P punctuation chars and W white chars (e.g.  (setq
>W [0-9a-zA-Z])). I haven't gotten it working yet (no time blah blah).
>Does anybody out there think this is good idea? That this is a lousy
>idea? That I am making something simple very complicated and should
>RTFM? In any case, I remain...

All this has been done in a new version of vip-mode.el. I posted the same
on comp.emacs, gnu.emacs.help, gnu.emacs.sources.

Aamod Sane
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