From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ralph@inputplus.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy) Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:10:34 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix In-Reply-To: <201711011806.vA1I60bL025852@freefriends.org> References: <20171030141645.6F81C18C0E7@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20171101140518.98D10212F3@orac.inputplus.co.uk> <201711011642.vA1Gg0bX016908@freefriends.org> <20171101171700.D8E0721937@orac.inputplus.co.uk> <201711011806.vA1I60bL025852@freefriends.org> Message-ID: <20171102001034.6739A2158D@orac.inputplus.co.uk> Hi Arnold, > I don't think I understand what you're getting at. It's been decades, > I think, since I last saw / used open mode, which is what I thought > you wanted, so I think I'm confused. Sorry if I wasn't clear. I miss open mode as vim doesn't have it, and I'd sometimes find it useful. Separately, I use ed regularly, and have though about its `compose a command, submit it', model being extended to commands that act upon a cursor that's within the line, just as `.' is the line within the file. I don't mean readline editing of the command, nor of the current line in the file. More what one might see on the RHS of `:map Q ...', but in the style of ed. -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy