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From: joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi)
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Subject: Re: Yet another screen editor
Keywords: new editor
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Date: 16 Jan 91 23:05:27 GMT
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cs00jec@unccvax.uncc.edu (Jim Cain) writes:

>   Are there any useful features missing in the more popular editors?

>   Any opinions on a good user interface?

The followin things come to my mind.

1. Column based editing. 
2. Try not to force the user to give counts for everything. This is a
real problem wih vi (like I wanna delete next some words, so I have to
count the number of words or think up a complicated Reg.Expr. Deletion
of lines poses the same problem).
3. Can you make i possible to hide lines such that I can view the entire
file on one screen and then selectively un-hide lines? Believe me, this
will make your editor one of the most popular editors.

>Jim Cain

Anil Joshi
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we are now has been the result of our own past actions,then it certainly follows
that whatever we wish to be in the future, can be produced by our own present 
actions. how to act." - Vivekananda, Late Nineteenth Century Indian Philosopher