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From: mwm@cuuxb.UUCP (Marc W. Mengel)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: VI(1) vs. the world
Message-ID: <847@cuuxb.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 14:42:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: cuuxb.847
Posted: Wed Oct  8 14:42:20 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Oct-86 06:13:18 EDT
References: <4327@brl-smoke.ARPA> <357@maynard.UUCP> <113@twg-ap.UUCP>
Reply-To: mwm@cuuxb.UUCP (Marc W. Mengel)
Followup-To: net.unix-wizards
Organization: AT&T-IS, Software Support, Lisle IL
Lines: 29
Keywords: religion,editors, emacs,vi
Summary: you CAN do keyboard macros in vi

In article <113@twg-ap.UUCP> narayan@twg-ap.UUCP (Narayan Mohanram) writes:
>> 
>> What's more, vi completely lacks the following features I find
>> indispensable:
>> 
>>     -	multiple buffers and windows
>>     -	query replace
>>     -	keyboard macros
>>     -	online help (":!man vi" doesn't count)
>> 
>> Larry Campbell                             The Boston Software Works, Inc.
>
>How about :g/old-string/s//new-string/gc for conditional replace. Or is
>query replace something different.

Not to mention the ":map" and ":map!" commands for keyboard macro's. (It 
seems to me you could mimic emacs fairly well by immediately going into 
insert mode, and using a good sprinkling of map! commands in your .exrc...)

And one volley for the other side: I really like to be able to say "15j" to
go down 15 lines, and "40a -<ESC>" to be able to make an 80 column dashed line.
Does Emacs, (or any other editor, for that matter) provide this repeat n times
facility? (this is not a rhetorical question, I don't know...)

P.S. A Challenge to those Other Editor users, I can write a vi macro to 
	reverse the words on a line... can you?
-- 
 Marc Mengel
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