Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!pawl!shadow
From: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Minix, Unix on the Amiga, and flames on AmigaDOS braindamage...
Message-ID: 
Date: 9 Aug 89 04:26:31 GMT
References: <3352@sol.warwick.ac.uk> <4031@cps3xx.UUCP> <7559@cbmvax.UUCP>
	<5067@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <439@xdos.UUCP>
Sender: usenet@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Lines: 25
In-reply-to: doug@xdos.UUCP's message of 8 Aug 89 15:44:03 GMT


On 8 Aug 89 15:44:03 GMT,
doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) said:

Doug> Furthermore there is one very important area of complex commands
Doug> that *do* require conscious thought, where vi is superior to all
Doug> existing editors...  its global/range search-and-replace command
Doug> set surpasses even Gnu Emacs.

*That* I find hard to believe.  GNU Emacs has not only query-replace
(a very nice function) but also query-replace-regexp.  [not bound to
any key by default.]  An incremental search is a useful and impressive
beast...  [A regexp I-search would be pretty incredible...]

Tell me what vi's got that GNU Emacs hasn't...  [Email unless you
actually think it's of general interest; this is already
questionable.]

Deven

--
Deven T. Corzine        Internet:  deven@rpi.edu, shadow@pawl.rpi.edu
Snail:  2214 12th Street, Troy, NY 12180       Phone:  (518) 271-0750
Bitnet:  deven@rpitsmts, userfxb6@rpitsmts     UUCP:  uunet!rpi!deven
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.