Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihlpf!straka
From: straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Aztec C/Shell DOES HAVE a 'vi' editor
Message-ID: <6455@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 20 Oct 88 17:42:44 GMT
References: <1988Oct10.145745.2790@mntgfx.mentor.com> <967@oswego.Oswego.EDU> <5606@hoptoad.uucp> <10402@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <15424@agat <6412@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <4704@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Reply-To: straka@ihlpf.UUCP (55223-Straka,R.J.)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <4704@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David M. O'Rourke) writes:
|In article <6412@ihlpf.ATT.COM| straka@ihlpf.UUCP (55223-Straka,R.J.) writes:
||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.
|
|  As has been posted several times....  MPW has all of UNIX's regualr
|expression matching & more.  From talking to people that have used UNIX for 

Slight clarification:  I am a USER of my Mac, not a PROGRAMMER who uses it as
my base machine.

I can do regular expression matching using text editors all day on my UNIX(R)
box. 

What I would like to see is this sort of capability on a WORD PROCESSOR.

Sorry about the confusion.
-- 
Rich Straka     ihnp4!ihlpf!straka

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