Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: One user's editor wish list Message-ID: Date: 12 Mar 91 16:58:40 GMT References: <1991Mar11.163554.21156@scrumpy@.bnr.ca> <1991Mar11.192122.18883@convex.com> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 27 In-reply-to: tchrist@convex.COM's message of 11 Mar 91 19:21:22 GMT In article <1991Mar11.192122.18883@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes: | From the keyboard of bnrmtl!lewis@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu: | :I got quite a few replies to my original post. Here are a few followup points. | : | :a) vi supports multiple files | : | : A few wrote saying that vi does support multiple files. Well, in a way, | : it's true, but it's not quite what I mean. I think I would say that vi | : supports sequential editing of files (with a rewind possibility (:rew)). | : At any one point, only one file is in memory. Except for the possibility | : of copying stuff from one file to the next, I see little difference | : between | : vi eins zwei drei | : and | : vi eins ; vi zwei ; vi drei | | No, you lose buffer information in the 2nd method, so it's not the same. However, vi only gives you one alternate file, so if you have more than 2 files, you lose. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?