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.