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From: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Aztec C/Shell DOES HAVE a 'vi' editor
Message-ID: <4618@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 14 Oct 88 18:54:20 GMT
References: <1988Oct10.145745.2790@mntgfx.mentor.com> <967@oswego.Oswego.EDU> <5606@hoptoad.uucp> <10402@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <15424@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David M. O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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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.

  Both MPW & Qued/M+ offer complex search and replace functions.  MPW offers
a grep lookalike with it's search tool, and Qued's Macro Language is much
more powerful than VI's search and replace.

  I think if you would give either of these editors a serious look you'd find
them better than VI.
-- 
David M. O'Rourke                                  dorourke@polyslo.calpoly.edu

"If it doesn't do Windows, then it's not a computer!!!"
Disclaimer: I don't represent the school.  All opinions are mine!