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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: vi-like editor for the IBM PC
Message-ID: <447@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 89 20:34:46 GMT
References: <688@nvuxl.UUCP> <1000004@spdyne>
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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In article <1000004@spdyne>, root@spdyne.UUCP writes:
] 
]    Yes, I just LOVE using EDT on a adm3a... Loads of fun...Ever try a NON-DEC
] terminal? YEEACH!  Very hard to get anything useful done, and even with
] a keypad, I didn't like it as it was hard to learn.. (Now was '4' Paste or
] Cut?...) Just what do you do if you don't have that little plastic keypad
] layout?  I loved it when I moved over to UNIX and got away from SOS (I didn't
] use EDT much as most of the termials weren't VT* compatiable.)

     You got me there! Yep, with EDT you have to have a VT*  compatible
with the keypad. Otherwise you are out of luck. vi does have the advantage
of working with many different terminals easily. EDT does have a command
line mode (like the colon ':' in vi) so you can use it without a VT-*,
It's ctrl-z. from there you can do substituting (s/oldtext/newtext/wh  sub
oldtext with newtext for the whole file) and stuff.
] ] 
] One of the things I like about VI/Brief is the ability to type:
]     1875G
] To jump to line 1,875 in a large program.
] 
In defense of EDT: try ctrl-z (to get the command prompt) and type
'1875' (apostrophes mine) and boom, there you are.
]     -Chert Pellett
]      root@spdyne

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