Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!solo.csci.unt.edu!ponder!mstgil From: mstgil@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Marc Ph. A. J. St.-Gil) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Xedit is better than vi and emacs Message-ID: Date: 17 Apr 91 21:45:26 GMT References: <2197@pdxgate.UUCP> <1991Apr16.193558.9369@njitgw.njit.edu> Sender: usenet@solo.csci.unt.edu (Usenet News) Distribution: usa Organization: University of North Texas, Denton Lines: 17 In <1991Apr16.193558.9369@njitgw.njit.edu> ken@hertz.njit.edu (ken ng cccc) writes: >In article<2197@pdxgate.UUCP> jonr@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Jon Edmund Richards) writes: >There are a few things I think could easily be put into vi but are not >in there currently (or I have yet to find them). For example, is there >a way to do a case insensitive search? I find '/[Ss][Tt][Uu][Ff]' to be >a real drag (In Xedit, just do a 'set case m i'.). A retrieve facility how about :set ignorecase in your .exrc file >Selectively hiding text could also be used as a primitive database. I >used to have many flat files and would fire up xedit and do an >'all/ugga/&/booga/' to show me all lines that had 'ugga' and then 'booga' all/ugga/&/booga/ = grep 'ugga.*booga' or /ugga.*booga because .* matches anything except a newline -- Marc Ph. A. J. St.-Gil mstgil@sol.acs.unt.edu