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From: sobiloff@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Blake Sobiloff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Is there VI for the Mac??
Message-ID: <4627@thor.acc.stolaf.edu>
Date: 18 Aug 89 16:37:39 GMT
References:  <7380029@hpwrce.HP.COM> <4587@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: sobiloff@thor.stolaf.edu (Blake Sobiloff)
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In article <4587@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> bmartin@uhccux.UUCP (Brian Martin) writes:
>... Actually, I'd like access to VI on the Mac also. The regular expression
>editor, once you've learned to use it, is a very powerful tool. I've wasted
>a lot of time downloading/uploading large (>1MB) text files from/to our
>Apollo just to use the regular expressions editing facility in VI.

Well, fer Gawd's sakes man, use Nisus!  It uses two forms of GREP (regular
GREP and Easy-GREP), plus traditional plain-Jane searches, and best of
all you don't have to give up the Mac-friendly interface!  It's available
from Paragon Concepts...
					Blake (saving his money) Sobiloff

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