If you could have anything in vi ...
Tim Chown
tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Mar 19 23:01:16 AEST 1991
In <7214 at ecs.soton.ac.uk> mrd at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie) writes:
>In <1991Mar18.195343.665 at cs.widener.edu> brendan at cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
>> I'm working on a "free" version of vi. It's to fully emulate the
>>current Berkeley-derived versions. After that, it's prettymuch a
>>free-for-all.
>> So .. what would you have added to vi, if you could? What would you
>>have made an option? What would you change?
>Well, judging by what crops up in this group repeatedly you couldn't
>go far wrong in providing,
>1) A built in way of justifying text.
>2) A more flexible way of editing several files and transferring
> between them.
Yes please. And the ability to edit on columns rather than rows
would be useful in some circumstances.
Tim
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