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From: tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain)
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Subject: Re: If you could have anything in vi ...
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bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>>    tilde as a range command "~E".
>What's wrong with the current default action of ~ ?

At the very least let me do "8~" and get the same
thing as "~~~~~~~~".  That should be easy.

But, as has been stated, a little better programability would
go a long, long way.  It could be a design problem though.

Paul Chamberlain | I do NOT speak for IBM.          IBM VNET: PAULCC AT AUSTIN
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