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From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
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Subject: Re: Aztec C/Shell DOES HAVE a 'vi' editor
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Date: 14 Oct 88 00:20:12 GMT
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In article <15424@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> steve@violet.berkeley.edu 
	(Steve Goldfield) writes:
>What Mac Editor has the complex search/replace patterns
>available in vi (by far its best feature)? If there is
>one, I'm ready for it. Right now I upload to UNIX if
>I want to do significant automatic editing of a file.

MPW Shell has this stuff.  The main drawback is that many of the
regular expression characters have been replaced by Macintosh extended
character set "option" characters.  I suppose this was done to be
different, or to give the impression that this is a new innovation,
invented by the people who programmed MPW Shell.  You get used to it
after a while, however.

MPW Shell can be used to do "significant automatic editing of a file"
and is perhaps as good as vi/ex in this regard.









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