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From: sti@cs.hut.fi (Sami-Jaakko Tikka)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Why I love VI
Date: 20 Aug 92 20:27:45 GMT
Reply-To: Sami.Tikka@hut.fi
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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In article <Bt9CEw.K42@cs.psu.edu> ward@math.psu.edu (Brian Ward) writes:

>   |a menu/mouse-driven version of vi?  I wonder if it's even possible.

>   that would probably, well, not probably, definitely, make it too slow.

Yes it probably would but that's not all vi's fault.  At least if it
was implemented using X Window System.  But there are a lot of faster
GUIs out there.  

For example I once read a paper on a window system called "8 1/2".  It
seemed nice, simple, light-weight and fast.  It would be nice to get
to try it somewhere.  MacIntoshes have a lean-and-mean window system
too.  Why is X so big and slow?!?!?
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From: ward@math.psu.edu (Brian Ward)
Subject: Re: Why I love VI
Organization: The Society for Green Traffic Lights
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 02:50:17 GMT

In article <BszsJ8.Cuz@mtholyoke.edu> mcrowley@mtholyoke.edu (Michael A. Crowley) writes:
|Of course with vendors putting the control key in awkward places....  But
|that invites a whole new thread.

that's not a problem if you use anything that doesn't have those "click-down
caps lock keys in the wrong place."

if you're on X, xmodmap is your friend.

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From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
Subject: Re: Brief-like editor for UNIX?
Keywords: editor computer UNIX
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 10:36:29 GMT

gbourque@austin.ibm.com (Gary Bourque) writes:


>I am looking for a editor for the UNIX (AIX) that is similar to the Brief editor
>for DOS and OS/2.  Does anybody have any suggestions?  Freeware or shareware
>preferred but not required.  Thanks beforehand!

Try 'CRISP'. It was a shareware program (it used to be available on
ftp.uu.net). It has gone into an excellent commercial product.
Rohit will send you an e-mail (if not send me a mail and I'll forward
his mail to you).

-- budi
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Subject: SECO
From: nunn@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (JsNO  BAR---NUNN)
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:34:29 +0900
Distribution: world
Organization: Information Technology, Northern Territory University
Keywords: Unknown

 Where can I get a ornamental copy of SECO.

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From: mzraly@ra.cs.umb.edu (Michael S. Zraly)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Why I love VI
Date: 21 Aug 92 04:04:13 GMT
Organization: UMass/Boston Dept. of Math & CS

rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:
>
>	[...]
>
>                       What an editor should be
>                            Budi Rahardjo
>
>     IMHO, justification should be  part of  a text  editor. Sometimes 
>I'd like to write simple documents, like this text, with  centered and 
>justified text.  This would be usefull in README files, or  documenta- 
>tion to programs. FrameMaker and Interleaf would be overkill for  this 
>kind of job, don't you think ?
>
>     I don't need fancy things, just two things;  center and  justify. 
>Am I asking too much ? :-) BTW, this text was typed with VDE on an MS- 
>DOS machine.
>
>     The 'fmt' command would not generate a nice format like this  :-) 
>and the ability to justify the  text on  the fly  is essensial  for me 
>(just a personal preference).

    Centering is easy in vi, just pipe text through a simple awk script,
e.g.

    awk 'length>0 {for(x=(72-length)/2;x>0;--x)printf(" "); print}'

map this if you need to use it frequently.

    If you must justify *AND* fill, pipe through nroff (and uniq, to
remove extra blank lines).  Use your favorite macro package.  (One thing
I don't like about TeX is its inability to generate ASCII output, but
that's only a peripheral issue here).

    The beauty of vi (and emacs too) is that it lets you use the under-
lying operating system to its full advantage, without having to incor-
porate code for things like fmt, fill, sort, uniq, nroff, awk, etc.  But
it does require you to know how to take advantage of it: sometimes that
means writing macros or mappings, sometimes shell scripts invoked by
these macros.  You pay for this flexibility by having to do a little
preparatory work, but on the other hand if you don't like the way that
a particular mapping works, its not difficult to make improvements.

    All IMHO, of course.

-- Mike

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From: jpglori@srv.PacBell.COM (John P. Gloria)
Subject: Re: Why I love VI
Organization: Pacific * Bell
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 01:00:16 GMT

In article <STI.92Aug14000308@laphroaig.cs.hut.fi> Sami.Tikka@hut.fi writes:
>
>Sorry, I just couldn't resist
>
>In article <1992Aug12.143949.15498@PacBell.COM> jpglori@srv.PacBell.COM (John P. Gloria) writes:
>
>>   Combine Vi with Eroff(Tm) and I can produce a document that other
>>   users think I used a MAC to produce. Yes, I agree, it takes a
>>   person with some bit of effort.
>
>Weird.  After all the complaint about menus and mice.  "they think I
>used a Mac".  Are you implying documents made with Mac are the
>ultimate top?  Then maybe you should produce your documents on a Mac.
>
>By the way Mac has both menus and mouse.
>--
By no means am I implying MAC documents are the TOP's. Most
non UNIX users that I know or work with in other departments
have no idea that UNIX has applications/utilities that can
produce documents that "look" like MAC dcuments.  Nothing
more. :-)

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From: graeme@abekrd.co.uk (Graeme Griffiths)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Why I love VI
Keywords: vi, speed, power
Date: 13 Aug 92 14:20:58 GMT
Organization: Abekas Video Systems, Reading, UK.


	I knew it, I physically cringed when I first saw the subject line
because I knew that, although the original post was a plain and simple
"Isn't vi neat" message, this was just going to degenerate into a slanging
match.
	O.K. some of us like vi,emacs etc and others (You know, the strange
ones ;-) like the new generation complete with mouse drivers, menus, the
works. I for one don't know much about these because I've found an editor
that I like, I fail to see that one editor can actually go *quicker* than
another when all editors I've seen run quick enough to keep up with my 2,3
or 4 finger typing. Admittedly I mostly use editors to program with and in
this case tend not to spend a great deal of time hauling large chunks of
text about and formatting pages to look nice (hey thats what beautifiers
are for) so many functions go unused.
	Just for the record I use jove as I found I like emacs-type editing
(I've got long fingers and I play the guitar so ctrl-keys aren't a problem
:-) and gnu emacs was just too big to get to grips with. I know vi enough
to use fairly well in case of system crashes and the need to use the only
editor available.
	This does not mean I frown on use of another editor by someone else,
variety allows each of us to choose and (according to Monty Python) we are
*all* different. Go with what suits you and drop the silly slanging match.

	And how come no-ones mentioned edlin ?.......

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From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: Re: Regular Expression Question
Followup-To: comp.editors
Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:52:27 GMT

In article <sjreeves.920812075405@eng.auburn.edu> sjreeves@eng.auburn.edu (Stan Reeves) writes:
:
:I need to construct a regular expression that locates all words without
:an "@".  I've exhausted all my own ideas and was wondering if I could
:draw on the expertise of this group.

Easy I thought, and I typed vi /etc/motd to play.

First, I tried:

/\<[^@]+\>

which is the most obvious thing.  And I got an error.  Oh, vi doesn't appear
to recognize +.  Sigh.  Well, let's try the next most obvious:

/\<[^@]*\>

That will do it, right?  Nah.  The problem here is that the * eats everything
up to the first @ in the line and treats it all as a string.

/\<[^.,<>!@#$%^&*()_-+=|\\{}:;"'~` 	]*\>

is close - there may be a few more things that I missed in there, and
there may be a need to quote a couple of those characters.  I gave up
after finding a subset of the above that worked enough to show me the
theory is right...
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From: agulbra@flipper.pvv.unit.no (Arnt Gulbrandsen)
Subject: .joverc to make jove like GNU Emacs 
Organization: ProgramVareVerkstedet - UNIT
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 18:25:42 GMT

It bothers me that Jove doesn't have exactly the same key bindings as
GNU Emacs.  My .joverc fixes it partially (C-S and C-R in particular),
but there are many more differences, so if anyone has a definitive
Emacs-like .joverc I'd like a copy.

--Arnt
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From: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose)
Subject: Re: New ftp location for the folding editor Origami
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 21 Aug 92 12:37:39 PDT

s.telford@ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford) writes:
: In article <1992Aug19.134345.9845@wheaton.wheaton.edu>,
: gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber) writes:
: 
: [lines omitted]
:
: > What is a folding editor?
: 
: I think the first folding editor was the one (written in occam 1!)

Folding editors, under the name of outliners, have been around a while.
I used one called Kamas under CP/M, and still use it under MSDOS. They
are invaluable for structuring large quantities of complex information,
and if you need one, you need one bad, but I've never liked them for
programming (tho' I tried an early version of origami under Minix).

Will
cwr@pnet01.cts.com

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From: hsingh@Turing.chem.uh.edu (Harpreet Singh)
Subject: Is there any MacWrite, Word etc like editor available for X-windows
Organization: Dept. of Chemistry
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:47:05 GMT


Hi Everybody,
	I wanted to know if there is any public domain MacWrite or Mac Word
	like editor available for X - windows.

Thanks in adv.
Harpreet
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From: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU (Chad Phillip Brown)
Subject: Re: X Editors
Organization: /mit/yandros/.organizations
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:56:55 GMT


(look like we can start this thread all over again...)

a) Why not VI or Emacs?  (never used brief/crisp)

b) There was a decent editor writen in Tk called 'point' a while back,
   but it's probably not want you want unless you REALLY can't use
   emacs or vi; by the time you have Tk and tcl and point, it's major
   disk space.  (Of course, you then have Tk and tcl, which can be
   very useful themselves...)

c) What is it you really want (a phrase any user consultant will
   quickly recognize. :-)

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From: rnelson@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Roger Nelson - Grad Student)
Subject: REDT new email address
Organization: Washington State University!
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 05:06:40 GMT


I am moving to a new machine.

Inquiries about my text editor REDT (currently version 2.1)
should be addressed to

   rnelson@ocelot.csc.wsu.edu

Roger Nelson

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From: skf26@cas.org (Scott Frost)
Subject: Resizing VI - Trying again
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:23:55 GMT

Earlier I posted an inquiry about how to create a macro to perform the 
following,

    Qset term=xterm^Mvi^M

The vi on SUN 0S 4.1.2 does not recognize a window resize.  Quitting vi,
resetting the term, and reinvoking vi works.  The problem is that I can't
seem to map a macro to perform this function. Once the Q key is processed the
rest of the line is ignored.

Is there a solution to this?

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From: jimr@applix.com (Jim Rouleau [ext 256])
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Counter in VI?
Date: 13 Aug 92 14:15:38 GMT
Organization: Applix, Inc., Westboro, MA

Is there any way to implement a counter in VI?
What I'd like to do is take something like this:

  #define a 1
  #define b 2
  #define c 3
    .
    .
  #define z 26

  to become

  #define a 0
  #define b 1
  #define c 2
    .
    .
  #define z 25

Any way to do this besides manually??

   jimr
From: gbourque@austin.ibm.com (Gary Bourque)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Brief-like editor for UNIX?
Keywords: editor computer UNIX
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:09:19 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin
Originator: gbourque@equator.austin.ibm.com


I am looking for a editor for the UNIX (AIX) that is similar to the Brief editor
for DOS and OS/2.  Does anybody have any suggestions?  Freeware or shareware
preferred but not required.  Thanks beforehand!
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From: cornpop@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Speaker for the Dead)
Subject: VI clone for Macintosh?
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:04:31 GMT

I alreaddy have MicroEmacs for Macintosh, now I want a VI clone for the ,ac if there is such a bease available.  Any help would be appreciated. 

Thank you,
Dan Lieberman
cornpop@glia.biostr.washington.edu
From: poynor@david.wheaton.edu (George V. Poynor)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Process for its own sake ( was Why I love VI )
Keywords: vi, love of process
Date: 13 Aug 92 18:22:28 GMT
Organization: Wheaton College, IL

In article <1992Aug10.154956.5432@Princeton.EDU> bvaughan@lotka.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan) writes:
> ... stuff deleted ...
>I'm always amazed at the fact that the most rapidly evolving field of the
>20th century attracts so many people who adamantly refuse to evolve with
>it.  I'm 47 years old and my first editor was a keypunch machine.  I've
> ... more stuff deleted ...
>I've known people so attached to their editors that they did their program
>editing on the IBM mainframe and downloaded the program to their PCs. 
>Guess where all these people are now?  The average computer professional
>has seven fat years, then seven lean years, then six months of outplacement.
>
>Barbara Vaughan
>bvaughan@opr.princeton.edu
>
	People who are heavily process-oriented seem to become
	emotionally attached to the process itself.  Since many
	computer specialists are this way, it is perhaps under-
	standable that such passionate resistance to change of
	the process would arise.

	George Poynor
	-- 
	poynor@david.wheaton.edu

-- 
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From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: X Editors
Date: 17 Aug 92 12:22:58 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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Richard Kooijman DNPAP (Richard.Kooijman@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl) wrote:
: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:
: 
: >In <4737@balrog.ctron.com> geremia@legolas (Peter P. Geremia) writes:
: >>	I have been scouring the net for a good X based 
: >>programmers editor that is not VI or EMACS or BRIEF based...
: >>	any one know of one?????

Nobody has mentioned the Stdwin editor -- ``miniedit''. I don't like it,
but someone who dislikes vi/emacs/brief would probably find it quite useful.
Of course, you have to build the entire stdwin distribution first (get it
from cwi.nl) but it's portable -- X, Mac, Dos, and even termcap/curses!

It's probably the closest to a Mac look and feel I've found under X.
(the main reason I dislike it :-))
Pete
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From: sherman@unx.sas.com (Chris Sherman)
Subject: Re: Why I love VI
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 01:53:11 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.

Vi is kind of like a RISC processor:  all the simple operations are very
  fast and very easy to get to.  All the complicated operations aren't there.

Emacs is kind of like a CISC processor:  All operations, simple and complex
  are in there, but they are ALL slow(er) and harder to get to.


For my kind of editing, I stick to the simple operations that vi offers. 
It is very rare that I need to use an advanced editing function that vi
doesn't offer with a few extra keystrokes.

Until someone comes up with something better than full screen editing, vi
is a good tradeoff between a slow, advanced editor, and a quick, simple 
editor.

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From: jlziegl@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Ziegler)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Jove and justification
Summary: Quirks in the way (our) jove handles justification
Keywords: jove, justify
Date: 15 Aug 92 04:39:46 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond


   Since I use =jove= as a quick and easy text editor, I wanted to 
modify the way it does justification to something a little more 
robust.  Currently, it recognizes a paragraph break as a completely 
blank line or a line that begins with a "." (I assume for ?roff
usage).  I want it to accept something along the lines of 
"^[<space><tab>.]|^$" as the beginning/end of the paragraph.  I tried
changing the PARASTR value in the Justify() routine, but I was 
getting strange results.  Then I found that even in the current 
(default?) condition, if the cursor is on the blank line between two
paragraphs when "M-x justify" is invoked, the two paragraphs are 
justified into one.
	(a)  Has this already been done, and our version of
		=jove= is just hopelessly out of date (_very_
		possible)?
	(b)  If not, what might I be seeing and how do I go
		about fixing it?

   E-mail answers are welcomed.  If the answer is significant (i.e.,
it isn't, "What cave have _you_ been living in?"), I'll post results.
Thanks.
					Zig
From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Why I love VI
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:05:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: atlantis.dn!1Hv4c19
Organization: Population Research Institute

In article <1992Aug19.151311.24984@Princeton.EDU> bvaughan@lotka.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan) writes:
>moving.  Some of the software I've been supporting for years (SAS for
>instance) is coming out with XWindows versions with full GUI splendor and
>if I insist on sticking with what I already know, I'll soon be an
>obsolescent SAS support person.

It's already out.  (SAS 6.07)  Just FYI, there's also a mouse and menu
mode for SAS on CMS, as well.  (from a graphics terminal like a 3179g)
It even has pull-down menus and dialog boxes.  You may have to learn
GUI support even if you do only stick with the big iron. :)

Now if only my tape of WordPerfect 5.1 would arrive.  I say that,
crossing my fingers hoping that they've fixed the dozens of bugs and
problems with 5.0.

I'll just sit here and meditate: "Orem... Orem.. Orem... "  :-)

--Dave
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From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
Subject: Re: X Editors
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 03:18:24 GMT

In <4737@balrog.ctron.com> geremia@legolas (Peter P. Geremia) writes:
>	I have been scouring the net for a good X based 
>programmers editor that is not VI or EMACS or BRIEF based...
>	any one know of one?????

Well, here's a start :
- OpenWindows' TextEdit
- mxedit (tk/tcl based)
- xedit
- Not sure whether 'fpted' could be classified as X based editor
  [You can position the cursor with the mouse under xterm]
- probably there are others (maybe wafe-based editor ?)

-- budi
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From: geremia@legolas (Peter P. Geremia)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: XVI
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:16:29 GMT
Reply-To: geremia@ctron.com
Organization: None whatsoever

Hello,

	Well in my  quest for an X editor I realized that I do like
the way vi gives you full access to all functionality through the
keyboard.  BUT  It would be nice to also have the capability to be
able to point the mouse at a character and the cursor moves to
that location.  It would also be nice to have some Emacs functionality
ie c++ mode...  So...  is there something out there which resembles
what I want... I have tried to use xemacs, but building it is a 
pain in the neck, with all the config stuff.. and  using it takes
some time to learn the commandss... 

Also,, I noticed that there is a module in xemacs (lisp) called
x-menu... (what is this for and if it is what it sounds like how 
do I use it??????)


					Thanks..

					Pete Geremia

ps.. Thanks for all my help with VI mode in emacs, to all
that have responeded....
From: kevinl@tisdec.tis.tandy.com
Date: 18 Aug 92 09:08 CDT
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Switching cols in VI
Message-ID: <4900001@tisdec.tis.tandy.com>
Nf-ID: #N:tisdec.tis.tandy.com:4900001:000:361
Nf-From: tisdec.tis.tandy.com!kevinl    Aug 18 09:08:00 1992


	If you don't want to worry about how many columns you have,
you can use the following awk program.


{
	for( i = 0; i < NF; i++ ) {
		printf "%s", $(NF - i)
		if( i != NF - 1 )
			printf " "
	}
	print ""

}

It just starts at the end and works backwards.  The 'if' is there
so that it doesn't put spaces at the end of your lines.  Hope this
helps you out. 8-)

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