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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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Subject: Re: Looking for vi
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Date: 22 Jan 90 23:15:25 GMT
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dmt@pegasus.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman) <4408@pegasus.ATT.COM> :
-
-In addition, you may want to try Stevie, which was posted (SOURCE!!!)
-to comp.sources.misc in August.  I am about to post an update (couple
-	[...]
-Disadvantages (incompleteness):
-   -	"Undo" doesn't work for "ex" commands, just "vi" commands.
-   -	No macros.
-   -	Probably others as well, but I'm not aware of them.


Something else that I miss is the ability to specify ranges for ex-mode
commands.  I often want to do things like ":7,38g/emacs/s//vi/g" but all
I've figured out in stevie is a repeated search-and-replace (repeated
"n." sequences) approach.