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- From: roger@uvmark.uucp (Roger MacNicol)
- Subject: Re: Vi for MS-Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.143148.57025@uvmark.uucp>
- Sender: Roger MacNicol
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 14:31:48 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.224822.11623@wam.umd.edu> <1992Nov19.232533.2725@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <By09xC.8Hy@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- >> mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu writes:
- >>> gupta@ansoft.com (Suvajit Gupta) writes:
- >>>> Is there a good public domain UNIX-style vi editor that runs under
- >>>> Microsoft Windows? Ideally, it should allow resizing of the window
- >>>> it runs in. I currently have a PC vi that runs under DOS, but it
- >>>> is limited to run in DOS windows (24 lines only!).
- >>>
- >>> Pardon me if this sounds rude, but why would you want to use VI in
- >>> Windows? It makes no sense to me to use only the keyboard in a
- >>> graphical user interface. NotePad is a good editor, and if you don't
- >>> think so, I'm sure Write, or your other word processors can do a good
- >>> job.
-
- You miss the whole point - the word-processor paradigm can only offer 50% of
- what is needed for efficient editing. You need a command mode as well.
-
- For example (taken from "Learning VI" by Linda Lamb), if you wanted to
- standardize on two spaces after periods and colons throughout a
- document you would enter:
-
- :%s/\([:.]\)<space><space>*/\1<space><space>/g
-
- this would find a colon or period followed by one or more spaces and replace
- them with exactly two spaces. You might think the command is ugly but I defy
- you to do this more elegantly in WordPerfect macro language!
-
- I only buy Windows software for home use but I find the ideological
- enforcement of its single paradigm oppressive. Drag and drop cutting and
- pasting is wonderful for local rearrangements of text but for a massive
- reorganisation or a large document its painful.
-
- - Roger
-
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