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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Cygnus macros from ARexx
Summary: You picked the wrong editor.
Keywords: CED ARexx macros Uedit vi
Message-ID: <15259@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 89 15:31:12 GMT
References: <2323@cadovax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
Lines: 27

In article <2323@cadovax.UUCP> kaz@cadovax.UUCP (Kerry Zimmerman) writes:
>I recently purchased Cygnus Professional to have another "ARexxable"
>program.  My fingers are so used to 'vi' that I decided to program a series
>of macros to allow a 'vi'-like interface to CED.  I realize that this is
>not totally possible because the normal keyboard keys without ctrl or alt
>cannot be used as the first character of a CED macro.  

Well, it's too bad that CED doesn't let you do this.  But if you want to
have a powerful, ARexx capable editor that mimicks vi, I've written a vi
emulator for the Uedit text editor.  Uedit lets you assign commands to
any key, regardless of whether or not it happens to be an unshifted
(or control or alt...) letter.  Except for some of the more complex EX
commands, it is a fairly complete vi emulator, and includes undo, redo,
marks, buffers, ctags, and delete buffers.

I'm currently in the process of updating the vi config to the latest
version of Uedit.  Send me email if you're interested, and I'll let you
know when it's ready.  I can even send it to Bob Page, since there are
so many UN*X users out there who are liable to be in the same boat.

BTW, although Uedit does have an ARexx port, the vi configuration
doesn't require it.  It would be too slow to try to do all that stuff
via ARexx, so it uses Uedit's internal programming language exclusively.

-- 
Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP