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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: vi on ms-dos
Message-ID: <1991Jun05.153324.25760@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 5 Jun 91 15:33:24 GMT
References: <1991May31.022942.25650@netcom.COM> <1991Jun01.110117.19901@cavebbs.gen.nz> <1991Jun3.143356.26128@welch.jhu.edu>
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In article <1991Jun3.143356.26128@welch.jhu.edu> glenn@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason) writes:

> I think I
>studied the command set for about an hour or so, and I have been able to do
>just about anything that you can possibly do with vi (which ain't much!-).

Either you learn a lot faster than the rest of us or you don't really
have any idea what vi can do (or perhaps your copy is a subset that
really can't do much...).

Do you do things like substitutions that swap field positions within
lines or upper/lower case conversions, cut and paste between files,
or filter chunks of your buffer through external programs.  Did you
really learn all that in an hour or did you cheat by already knowing
how regular expressions work?

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us