From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ralph@inputplus.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy) Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 14:05:18 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix In-Reply-To: References: <20171030141645.6F81C18C0E7@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: <20171101140518.98D10212F3@orac.inputplus.co.uk> 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. -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy