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- From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
- Subject: Re: VI??? GROSS!
- Message-ID: <Z8U84BL@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
- Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
- References: <LYT86XN@math.fu-berlin.de> <1992Nov12.232530.18958@wixer.cactus.org> <1992Nov13.124435.20019@cas.org> <1992Nov13.152821.6781@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:34:12 GMT
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- Most repliers to my posting seem to be that well accustomed to the fact
- that vi is a line editor that they didn't see my point when I wrote
- "arbitrary (!) block of text" (well, maybe "block" was misleading). This
- is not a block of lines (which is the unit of most vi operations) and
- since I referred to "elementary text editing tasks" I didn't mean columns
- either. Suppose I have the lines
- word1 word2 word1
- word3 word4 word3
- and I need the text from "word2 " up to "word4" (assume it's a sentence)
- to be copied or moved elsewhere.If an editor cannot do this with a
- simple command sequence (and without the search trick burdening me with
- the task of counting the occurences of the word following my sentence
- within my sentence, if it can be done that way at all), I just do not
- call it a text editor.
- Have a nice week-end.
- Thomas
- wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de
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