1 Nov
2017
1 Nov
'17
8:05 p.m.
Hi Ronald,
On a few machines where I’m confronted with VI and no
ed/emacs, I just
use VI in “ex” mode.
One thing I miss with vim(1) is the lack of open mode, the half-way
house between ex and vi modes. I still use ed daily when I know the
edit I want to do and have the context to work by, e.g. output from
previous commands, on the screen, that I don't want removed by a
full-screen editor. But sometimes it would be nice to be able to `f(c%'
rather than always have to regexp the edit and vi's open mode would give
me that.
I've idly considered an ed that also maintained a cursor within the line
that could be used with vi-like commands.
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Cheers, Ralph.
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