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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: Xedit is better than vi and emacs
Message-ID: <GNSA62B@xds13.ferranti.com>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation
References: <2197@pdxgate.UUCP> <1991Apr16.193558.9369@njitgw.njit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 16:49:57 GMT

In article <1991Apr16.193558.9369@njitgw.njit.edu>, ken@hertz.njit.edu (ken ng cccc) writes:
> There are a few things I think could easily be put into vi but are not 
> in there currently (or I have yet to find them).  For example, is there
> a way to do a case insensitive search?

:set ignorecase

> well?)  I don't know how many times I wanted to try something from vi
> but was off by one character

Insert the command into the text, cut it, and execute it as a macro.

> command line.)   And lastly, sometimes I WANT BLANKS when I hit <cr> in
> insert mode with autoindent enabled.

Set tabstops to something ridiculous.

> switch that enables that.  (Note: none of these are flames, if there is
> an easy way to do them, I would like to know so I can use them.)

There you go.

As for a good UNIX editor for naive users, dte seems pretty good. I'm
going to have to port it to termcap, though.
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