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From: tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: If you could have anything in vi ...
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Date: 19 Mar 91 13:01:16 GMT
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In <7214@ecs.soton.ac.uk> mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie) writes:

>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?

>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.

Tim