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From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: VI(1) vs. the world
Message-ID: <532@epimass.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Oct-86 18:31:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: epimass.532
Posted: Thu Oct 16 18:31:09 1986
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Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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Summary: Emacs does too have regular expressions!

I was going to drop out of the editor wars, but can't let
misinformation go uncorrected.

In article <690@galbp.UUCP> mjy@galbp.UUCP (Michael Yoffee) writes:
>	1.  EMACS does NOT have REGULAR EXPRESSIONS which means you
>	    must develop your own pseudo-regular expressions via
>	    macros which is VERY slow(I experimented with this).

Both GosEmacs (Unipress) and GNU have regular expressions!  What
Emacs are you talking about?  They're actually a superset of the ones
in vi!  Next time RTFM before posting.


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- Joe Buck 	{hplabs,fortune}!oliveb!epimass!jbuck, nsc!csi!epimass!jbuck
  Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, California