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From: cyosta@taux01.UUCP (Yossie Silverman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Aztec C/Shell DOES HAVE a 'vi' editor
Message-ID: <907@taux01.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 88 09:29:07 GMT
References: <1988Oct10.145745.2790@mntgfx.mentor.com> <967@oswego.Oswego.EDU> <5606@hoptoad.uucp> <10402@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <15424@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <6412@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: taux01!cyosta@nsc.UUCP (Yossie Silverman)
Organization: National Semiconductor (Israel) Ltd.
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In article <6412@ihlpf.ATT.COM> straka@ihlpf.UUCP (55223-Straka,R.J.) writes:
.In article <15424@agate.BERKELEY.EDU| steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes:
.|In article <10402@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU| earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) writes:
.|#|In article <5606@hoptoad.uucp| tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
.|#||What on Earth does vi give you that a good Mac editor doesn't?  
.|#|Tags, automatic backup files.
.|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.
.
.Steve hit it right on the head.  It's not vi vs. whatever.  It's a general
.editor capability question:
.
.I've never seen anything that comes even close to UNIX(R)'s regular
.expression matching when it comes to complex search and replace algorithms.
.
.Why don't ALL editors and word processors have this (UNIX's) regular
.expression matching?  I know it's complex to implement, but it's extremely
.powerful, and if you're going to make a standard, you can't go too wrong with
.it.
.-- 
.Rich Straka     ihnp4!ihlpf!straka
.
.Avoid BrainDamage: MSDOS - just say no!

Check out Qued/M by Paragon Software.  It has FULL (much nicer than UN*X)
regular expression search/replace capabilities as well as a nicely done macro
facility.  The macro facility lets you call any MENU command passing it 
whatever parameters it would otherwise ask for as well as providing some
structuring commands (if,for, etc..).  It can edit a memory limited number
of files.  It has support for tags, invisible blocks of text.  It comes with
a well written (though somewhat terse) manual.  It is a fast, powerful and
extensible editor.  I believe it has autosave as well as backup copies ability.

I am a very happy user of Qued/M and base the above on my own impressions.
I have nothing at all to do with Paragon Software.
-- 
Yossie Silverman                                   What did the Caspian sea?
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