Things that could be done to improve vi

[Daniel R. Levy]

In article <936 at kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP>, barnettb at vdsvax.uucp (Barnett Bruce G) writes:
>In article <89 at houligan.UUCP> dave at murphy.UUCP writes:
>>I would like to see a couple of things in vi that would make it a little less
>>frustrating to use in certain applications.  They are:
>
>Try putting in .exrc
>	:map! a A
>	:map! b B
>	:map! c C
>	.
>	.
>	.
>	:!map! z Z
>
>Anytime you type (in insert mode) an `a', the editor with map it into `A'

Also when you type a lowercase letter in ex command mode the editor will map
it too!  I just tried it out of curiosity.  Not much fun.  It takes a lot of
^V quoting to recover (:^Vu^Vn^Vm^Va^Vp! a<RETURN>  :^Vu^Vn^Vma^Vp! b etc...).

>What's that you say? You don't want this all the time?
>just put it in a file calls `.f' - for fortran, and type
>
>	:source .f
>when you want fortran mode.
...
>
>bruce barnett
>chinet!steinmetz!vdsvax!barnettb
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