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From: mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Borland-type editor anywhere?
Date: 8 May 1996 21:55:13 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Eugene Radchenko
wrote on 07 May (in article <ADlbrKriXS@qsar.chem.msu.su>):
=Well, I use vi - it is ok for fixing PATH in .profile or uncommenting
=options in LINT, but for anything more demanding-....
=As to emacs and its clones - here is what I want - I think it answers to
=this:
=1- flexible customizable command set - preferably using Esc for exiting
= rather than invoking special commands and defaulting to Borland commands
=2- visible selected area (e.g. inverted)
=3- ability to select area with Shift+cursor_movement_keys as well as usual
= 'set mark' commands
=4- column (rectangular) and linear selection types
=5- clipboard where selected area can be cut/copied to and pasted from
= (system-wide clipboard would be nice but editor-incarnation-wide will do)
=6- insertion-replaces-selection protocol (a-la Windoze) - at least as
= switchable option
=7- ability to insert files and to write selection to file (and multifile
= editing as well)
=8- autoindenting and some other nice touches (though emacs has some of
= these, I've heard)
Points 1 and 6 clearly indicate, that it is _you_ who needs the features,
not the work you are doing. In other words, whatever it is, that is "more
demanding" it can be done with vi (in fact, when I am so unfortunate, that
I have to work on Windows, I install vi on my machine...), but _you_ would
prefer "a-la Windoze" interface. That's fine, but do not blame an innocent
software, it is perfectly capable of all the demands... FreeBSD's nvi is
particularly good, BTW.
People say xemacs is good, but I can smell mice miles from it, so I do not
use it...
-mi
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