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From: ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern)
Subject: Re: If you could have anything in vi ...
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.011942.27074@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
References: <1991Mar18.195343.665@cs.widener.edu> <7214@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <7220@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 01:19:42 GMT

>>In <1991Mar18.195343.665@cs.widener.edu> brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
>
>>> I'm working on a "free" version of vi. It's to fully emulate the
>>>current Berkeley-derived versions. After that, it's prettymuch a
>>>free-for-all.
>>> So .. what would you have added to vi, if you could? What would you
>>>have made an option? What would you change?
>
(some text deleted....)

>>Well, judging by what crops up in this group repeatedly you couldn't
>>go far wrong in providing,
>
>>1) A built in way of justifying text.
>>2) A more flexible way of editing several files and transferring
>>   between them. 
>
>Yes please.  And the ability to edit on columns rather than rows
>would be useful in some circumstances.
>
I'm not sure if you already plan this but some form of on-line help
(such as the F1 key in Sidekick, etc.) would be very helpful IMHO.

						      Larry