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From: joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Yet another screen editor
Keywords: new editor
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Date: 19 Jan 91 03:56:37 GMT
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bgg@pta.oz.au (Ben Golding) writes:

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>	d$	delete to end of line
>	d%	delete to matching parenthesis
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>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.

This is the very thing that bugs me. You have to closely look to see
what you are deleting and think (I do that sometimes :-).

>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.

I don't think the defaults are good at all in vi. I have agree though
that emacs defaults are worse. I tried using fmt to do formatting of 
cursor to end of paragraph. It formatted the whole document.
>	Ben.
Anil
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