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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: vi for the Mac
Message-ID: <5751@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 25 Oct 88 20:32:05 GMT
References: <442@edsel.UUCP> <8400037@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <8400037@m.cs.uiuc.edu> rudolph@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>While in general I certainly prefer Mac style editing to vi, there is one vi
>feature I find extremely useful which has yet to show up in any Mac editor I
>have seen, and that is the ability to mark a location and quickly return to
>it.

MPW Shell has it.

I'd prefer the system to keep a list of recent locations automatically,
and you could then bring up the list with a command-key shortcut and select
in it.  A few lines of surrounding context would suffice.  This seems much
more Mac-like, and parallels a HyperCard feature to boot.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
These are not my opinions, those of my ex-employers, my old schools, my
relatives, my friends, or really any rational person whatsoever.