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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Editor extensibility
Message-ID: <900@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 88 17:22:13 GMT
References: <4052@enea.se> <97@usl-pc.usl.edu> <4210@encore.UUCP>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <4210@encore.UUCP> pierson@mist (Dan Pierson) writes:
>In article <97@usl-pc.usl.edu>, jpdres10@usl-pc (Green Eric Lee) writes:
> >> Also, I don't want a move-by-word command pass line borders. 
>
>Sounds like he wants vi-like behavior, some people do.  Much as I like
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
There seems to be a widespread misconception that moves by words in vi
(commands w, W, b, or B) don't pass line borders.  THEY DO! At least in
HP-UX and 4.2 BSD (try for yourself). Only if you add a blank after the
last word on a line will this behaviour be inhibited.


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