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From: pww@bnr.ca (Peter Whittaker)
Subject: Re: If you could have anything in vi ...
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.212542.8531@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
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References: <1991Mar18.195343.665@cs.widener.edu> <1991Mar20.203643.26406@convex.com> <3154@inews.intel.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 21:25:42 GMT

In article <3154@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>In article <1991Mar20.203643.26406@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>>Here's my list.  I already sent it in email:
>>    visible marks.
>
>You can leave that out just fine.  No blinky-
>reversed box thingies for me, thanks.
>
How about making it customizable - I mean really customizable, i.e. you can 
toggle between options (blinky or noblinky) on a popup options menu (and the
popup would be customizable - i.e. for some people it would be an edit session
where they would edit .VIdefaults, while I would use a popup menu that would
do the same thing - only using radio buttons, so I don;t have to go to man 
pages all the time).

Then, make it so you could recompile it on the fly, absorbing the current 
options as program defaults.

How about mouse-based block cut-and-paste?  Perhaps using shift and ctrl to
modify the pertinent mouse button actions?

(I'm sorry - I'll submit this to the EDITORWISHLIST next time - I want EPM!)



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