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From: bgg@pta.oz.au (Ben Golding)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Yet another screen editor
Keywords: new editor
Message-ID: <3879@pta.oz.au>
Date: 18 Jan 91 03:30:47 GMT
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In article <1991Jan16.230527.3200@cs.uiuc.edu> joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi) writes:
>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).

I disagree entirely.  Vi has exactly this capability by using the
various positioning commands, for example:

	d)	delete to end of sentence
	d}	delete to end of paragraph
	d$	delete to end of line
	d%	delete to matching parenthesis
	dfx	delete up to and including first character x
	dtx	delete up to first character x

By using these commands which work on natural textual objects, I find I
rarely need to resort counting words; when I do, I tend to delete one
object and then use "." to delete as many as I want rather than counting.

The only gripe I have is that the definitions of what constitutes a
paragraph or a sentence are hard coded in.  However, the defaults are
sensible and rarely give unexpected results.

	Ben.