Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usenet!ogicse!mintaka!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: One user's editor wish list Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 91 21:47:08 GMT References: <1991Mar11.163554.21156@scrumpy@.bnr.ca> <1991Mar11.192122.18883@convex.com> <1991Mar12.190344.7863@ecf.utoronto.ca> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 27 In-reply-to: xiaoy@ecf.toronto.edu's message of 12 Mar 91 19:03:44 GMT In article <1991Mar12.190344.7863@ecf.utoronto.ca> xiaoy@ecf.toronto.edu (XIAO Yan) writes: | In article meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes: | (lines deleted...) | >However, vi only gives you one alternate file, so if you have more | >than 2 files, you lose. | | (lines deleted...) | | Are you serious? | Or are you using some pecular programme calling itself vi? | Or you are insulting our intelligence!! By losing, I meant that the vi(le) editor only keeps track of the current position for the current file, and the alternate file. It does not keep track of the position you were at for all of the files in the edit list. Also, keeping track of which file I'm in a sequence of files is for the birds, as is having only alternate file. Even without considering the other features, this was a powerful reason for me to switch to emacs (CCA originally, and now GNU). -- 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?