From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Blake McBride Message-ID: References: Subject: Re: [9fans] Emacs Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:10:13 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a893b752-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I think one of main problems is that, in spite of the fact that I have a quality video board, Plan 9 comes up in a low resolution. It's so low that if I open up an RC window and do a man on a command the text partially wraps and is difficult to read. If I could fix that problem I'd feel a lot better. Things I commonly use in emacs: intelligent Keyboard macros intelligent auto indent repeat command n number of times Undo Query replace Scroll one line at a time (up or down) Put current line at top of screen Narrow region Don't wrap lines on display Push, pop, and remember locations Assign blocks of text to registers (cut and paste more than one block) Be able to switch back and forth between two buffers without having to select it each time Save ALL modified buffers command Find matching paren, brace, etc. Abbreviations Can sam or acme do these? I think these are powerful capabilities. Surely I can write whatever I want in ed but these features make my life a lot easier and more productive. -------------- Download source code to my Dynace Object Oriented Extension to C and Windows Development System from: http://algorithms.us Blake McBride (blake@algorithms.us) Algorithms Corporation - 615-791-1636 - USA