vi, Emacs

[Chris Torek]

In article <690 at galbp.UUCP> mjy at galbp.UUCP (Michael Yoffee) writes:
>	1.  EMACS gives us the multiple-edit capablility which is 
>	    very useful for cut and paste operations.

So does vi, though in a rather ugly way (named buffers, and an
alternate file and `next' and `rewind' commands).

>	2.  VI(1) gives us the POWERFUL facility of REGULAR EXPRESSIONS

So does Emacs.

>	3.  EMACS gives us the POWERFUL macro facility.

So does vi.

>	1.  EMACS does NOT have REGULAR EXPRESSIONS ....

You have a pretty bogus Emacs!  UniPress and Gnu Emacs both have
regular expressions.

>	2.  VI(1) does NOT give us the multiple-edit capability for
>	    cut & paste but, you can yank a region and paste when
>	    you enter a new file.

. . . which amounts to the same thing.  If you set autowrite, you
can type, e.g.,

	% vi f1 f2
	/foo<RET>"adj:n<RET>/bar<RET>"ap^^ ... ^^ ... ZZ

(^^ is control-hat, which is equivalent to :e#<RET>).

>	3.  VI(1) does NOT give us a macro facility.

Try `:map'.
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