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From: leech@homer.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
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Subject: Re: Something NEW for a change?
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Date: 11 Dec 89 17:03:17 GMT
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In article <1384@argus.UUCP> ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) writes:
>I just tell xedit not to show me from line A to line B.  Another funky use
>of it is I tell it to show me all lines with 'alpha' and not 'beta', kind
>of like a funky grep.

    Yes!  The ALL command is wonderful.  I added it to the editor I
maintain (a distant relative of the RAND editor and INed) in 1985
after seeing it in XEDIT.  I use it all the time now :-)
    Any editor without this ability is seriously lacking; I find ALL
is particularly useful in conjunction with a powerful set of
rectangle-oriented operations.
--
    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
    "A compact set can be controlled by a finite police force no
     matter how dumb." H. Weyl ca. 1938