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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi vs. emacs
Message-ID: <715@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 4 Aug 88 17:38:55 GMT
References: <16697@brl-adm.ARPA> <12496@ism780c.isc.com> <1186@ficc.UUCP> <12604@ism780c.isc.com>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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In article <12604@ism780c.isc.com> mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic) writes:
>In article <1186@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >That's why I generally yank to a pattern. For example, "ay/^}^[ is a favorite
> >of mine. Also, how do you do >>% in Emacs?
>
>Well, you could write a lisp function to do it...

You gotta be kidding!

Go into recursive hades for eternity just to do yank'n'stuff?

Emacs is losing its edge...

				--Blair
				  "Don't need no more than the
				   <shift>, ^], and my return key..."