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- From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: C code Layout
- Message-ID: <786@ulogic.UUCP>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 23:13:05 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.153137.13423@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <BzqIHE.7p3@rahul.net> <1992Dec24.182102.5554@draco.macsch.com>
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- In article <1992Dec24.182102.5554@draco.macsch.com> dnl@convex.is.macsch.com (David Lombard) writes:
- >I'll add another vote for vi!
- >
- >Of course, I have been accused of liking all manner of editors sporting
- >arcane,
- >confusing, or are otherwise deadly single keystroke commands. I think
- >the worst (best?) of that genre was an editor known as SPEED on DG's
- >DOS and RDOS systems. As an example, the command `23t' would
- >display 23 lines, the command `23y' would kill your buffer 23 times
- >over - look at your keyboard, notice that t & y are adjacent!
- >DG later wimped out on AOS and made some of the more glaring acts of self-
- >destruction require confirmation.
-
- Sounds like TECO. I heard that people used to type their names
- as commands into that one, just to see what they would do....
-
- >Seriously, I find vi fast, compact, powerful, and (almost) universally
- >available. As for multiple buffers, that's what windows are for...
- >Hmmm, maybe I should port vi to my Macinslash!?!?
-
- I hate to say it, but vi *does* have multiple buffers.
- 26+10 cut/paste buffers to be specific.
-
- You can also maintain your place in two different files
- at once, although the second file is not kept in memory
- in a buffer.
-
- map ^N :e#^M
-
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