vi has colon commands ":" just like ED, and I use them often. There are no better DOS editors than VI, but we all have our opinions, and you are welcome to yours. That's exactly why there are so many editors out there to use. I personally don't like EMACS, but that's because I already learned VI. While as an EMACSIAN I think you are a heretic :-) The ":" commands are part of vi's ex mode. Bill Joy 1984. "I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard. I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. I think as mode-based editors go, it pretty good. One of the good things about EMACS,
On Friday 11 November 2005 2:15 pm, Paul Cartwright wrote:
though, is its programmability and the modelessness".
http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~kirkenda/joy84.html
This article gives a lot of history on Vi.
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Jerry Feldman