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From: sane@cs.uiuc.edu (Aamod Sane)
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Subject: Re: EMACS ??? <---> VI !!!
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Date: 30 May 91 15:54:24 GMT
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ury@mosque.huji.ac.il (ury segal) writes:


>Look. EMACS is too complex. I tryed to find How to get the current line
>number for 1/4 hour And I couldn't. SO I USE VI !  _Much_ better for me
>right now. And emacs don't let me use my mouse (I'm running X), and epoch
>let me, but not on the standart way.
>I know that EMACS is great, have meny meny features. SO WHAT. I can't
>use them easily.

>--ury
>(By the way, How you get the current line number ?) 

There is a vi emulation for emacs that provides all the vi/ex command set
(barring a few obscure things). It is called vip.el and was posted on 
gnu.emacs.sources a few weeks ago. There is a newer version, and you can
send email to me for that version. I'll be posting it one of these days.

Incidentally, that shows that complexity of emacs does pay off. Not that one
should use the vi emulation simply because you did not succceed in finding the
what-line function. (Once vi was mentioned, I could not resist..) .
One thing to do probably is to learn how to use the help
and info in emacs.

Cheers,

	Aamod
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