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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Editor w/ a Decent Undo?
Message-ID: <6527@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 23:01:30 GMT
References: <7200035@uiucdcsm>
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
Lines: 34
Summary: Uedit does it.

In article <7200035@uiucdcsm>, schwager@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> 
> Does anyone know of an editor with decent undo capabilities?  By decent
> I mean rivaling the Unix vi editor.  With vi, I can delete a whole slew
> of text, write out my buffer, then undo my delete.  I've used Uedit and
> like it, but the only undo I've found is for the simple keypad deletes.
> If I delete using the cut-and-paste menu functions, I can't undo it.

You can if you do it right.  If you use the menu 'cut hilite', it saves
it to a buffer, then cuts it.  you can then make alterations, changes,
anything that doesn't require another copied hilited region, and then
put the cut hilited region back.  It's not exactly an 'oops' type undo,
which will undo whatever your last change was, but if you make a cut with
the purpose in mind of eventually putting it back, you can do it.

You can also do it with the inverted region, giving you two 'separate
but equal' copy/cut/paste systems.  (you can use them at the same time,
since they use different buffers.)

> Needless to say, I don't want to have to use Z or anything resembling vi
> on the Amiga...
Awww, why not?   B-)

> -mike schwager
> -- {ihnp4,convex,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!schwager   schwager%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa
> 	University of Illinois, Dept. of Computer Science

Disclaimer:  I don't know how old your version of Uedit is, but it has
undergone quite a facelift in the last year or so, so this may not apply
to your version, and naturally, is not gauranteed to apply to any.

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Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP