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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi and emacs
Keywords: vi emacs
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.203851.26928@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 11 Jun 91 20:38:51 GMT
References: <1991Jun1.021505.4043@trl.oz.au> <1991Jun03.151727.9944@chinet.chi.il.us> <1148@iris.mincom.oz.au>
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In article <1148@iris.mincom.oz.au> lattice@iris.mincom.oz.au () writes:
>I am a recent *convert* to emacs from vi, but I recognise that they are both
>valuable tools, though emacs is now my editor of choice.
>With reference to the above I would say two things:
>	1. There is no need to use an external program for indentation -
>	   vi has an autoindent mode, invoked using
>		:set autoindent

That's fine for typing entirely new code, but what do you do when you
add or delete a loop surrounding existing code and want the indentation
fixed?.   I usually just pipe through cb.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us