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From: tdn@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Thomas Newton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Porting UNIX Applications to the Mac
Message-ID: <1073@spice.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Sun, 28-Sep-86 16:54:02 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 28 16:54:02 1986
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>> It's true that you can go directly to a specific line number but you can't
>> easily go up five lines and over twenty characters.

I don't know about vi, but there are several ways it could be done in EMACS.
And in Hemlock, an EMACS-family editor built into Spice Lisp, one can point
and click using the puck or type keyboard commands as one prefers.

> Your probably just to lazy to learn vi, it is infinitely
> flexible compared to any other editor.

Compared to Gosling EMACS or GNU EMACS?  Programmability is a big win...

>> to cut & paste in (which if you looked at code I've written you'll know why
>> I like this--" Who needs a for next loop I'll just paste it in five times")

The Kill buffer in EMACS is analogous to the Macintosh clipboard in that text
that is placed into it may be yanked ("pasted") several times.  Some versions
of EMACS even have kill rings (translation: multiple Clipboards).

                                        -- Thomas Newton