Newsgroups: comp.editors Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) Subject: Re: Xedit is better than vi and emacs Message-ID: Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation References: <2197@pdxgate.UUCP> <1991Apr16.193558.9369@njitgw.njit.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 16:49:57 GMT In article <1991Apr16.193558.9369@njitgw.njit.edu>, ken@hertz.njit.edu (ken ng cccc) 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? :set ignorecase > well?) I don't know how many times I wanted to try something from vi > but was off by one character Insert the command into the text, cut it, and execute it as a macro. > command line.) And lastly, sometimes I WANT BLANKS when I hit in > insert mode with autoindent enabled. Set tabstops to something ridiculous. > switch that enables that. (Note: none of these are flames, if there is > an easy way to do them, I would like to know so I can use them.) There you go. As for a good UNIX editor for naive users, dte seems pretty good. I'm going to have to port it to termcap, though. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"