Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!robobar!ronald From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: vi and emacs Message-ID: <1991Mar26.211511.27306@robobar.co.uk> Date: 26 Mar 91 21:15:11 GMT Article-I.D.: robobar.1991Mar26.211511.27306 References: <1991Mar07.232206.8438@convex.com> <1991Mar8.164415.14087@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <11036@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. Lines: 18 torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes: > Things might be in much better shape if Ken Thompson had originally > designed `ed' with a single special character that introduced all > regular expression metasequences; Perl does this with '\'. Nice. Problem is I keep typing Perl-style patterns at other utilities, now :-( > (Actually, if I were designing an RE syntax, I think I would make Kleene > `*' matching use a prefix, Yuck. I vaguely remember an editor embedded in some language product that ran on a micro (was it a BBC ? can't remember) doing something like this and I *hated* it. WHAT? You mean I gotta know what I want to repeat *before* I type it? Ugh. -- Ronald Khoo +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)