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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: vi for the Mac (vs Word or Nisus or ...)
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Date: 2 Jan 91 19:53:13 GMT
References: <40257@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <5974@stpstn.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: cox@stpstn.UUCP (Brad Cox)

In article <5974@stpstn.UUCP>, cox@stpstn (Brad Cox) writes:
>I consistently discovered that regular expression searches that
>routinely took milliseconds under vi/Unix took minutes to *hours* under
>Nisus. As I recall, one that took almost forever (I finally gave up
>waiting and just left it running overnight) was the Nisus equivalent of
>vi's :1,$s/\(\^.\)+/%/g; i.e. replace repeated carets followed
>by anything with a single '%' character. Hardly what you'd call exotic!

Sounds pretty bad.  I've always found Nisus to be pretty speedy
myself, but I guess it could depend on the length of the file, and of
course what Mac you were running it on.

Also, what version of Nisus were you using?  I've used 2.x and 3.x,
but perhaps 1.x versions were much slower.

Please post the details; I'm interested in trying it out for myself.

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