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From: ken@hertz.njit.edu (ken ng cccc)
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Subject: Re: Xedit is better than vi and emacs
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Date: 18 Apr 91 14:10:01 GMT
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In article <mstgil.671924726@ponder> mstgil@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Marc Ph. A. J. St.-Gil) writes:
:how about :set ignorecase in your .exrc file

EXCELLENT!  Thank you!  Now can you tell me how to get a retrive and
command edit for ':!' and '!!'?  Please?

:all/ugga/&/booga/ = grep 'ugga.*booga' or /ugga.*booga
:because .* matches anything except a newline

Not quite the same, I want all occurances of 'ugga.*booga' and 'booga.*ugga'.
AND I want to be able to selectively open up the text around the lines
as well.  Yes I can do 2 greps and merge them together, but I then I
loose the line order they occurred on.

On another note, I've been told privately that GNU Emacs can do everything
I want to do with Xedit.  Well, as soon as I get it running at home and
can print out the manual so I can learn how to use the bloody thing, I'll
try it out.  Programming in Lisp does make me a bit quesy though.

Kenneth Ng
"No problem, this is how you make it" -- R. Barclay, ST: TNG