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- The U command is missing. (It should undo all changes to a single line.)
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- The replace mode is a hack. It doesn't save the text that it overwrites.
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- The search commands can only find the first occurrence of the target in a line.
- If the line contains more than one occurrence, the second is ignored. (This
- doesn't affect the :s/target/replacement/g command, though.)
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- Long lines are displayed differently -- where the real vi would wrap a long
- line onto several rows of the screen, Elvis simply displays part of the line,
- and allows you to scroll the screen sideways to see the rest of it.
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- The ":preserve" and ":recover" commands are missing, as is the -r flag.
- I've never had a good reason to use ":preserve", and since use of ":recover"
- is so rare, I decided to implement it as a separate program. There's no
- need to load the recovery code into memory every time you edit a file.
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- LISP support is missing.
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- The "@" and ":@" commands are missing.
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- You can't APPEND to a cut buffer. The following DOES NOT WORK:
- "Ayy
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