Re: [Sheflug] vi, emacs, sharp sticks

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris J/#6 <sixie [at] nccnet.co.uk> writes:

    >> Surely vi has some kind of mark and a notion of "the current
    >> region"?

    Chris> How do you define "the current region"? vim (I've not
    Chris> checked pure vi) allows you to set marks in a file which
    Chris> act as bookmarks into a file or sets of files using
    Chris> ':m{a-zA-Z}'. But they're only set on a line - if you
    Chris> delete the line, the mark dissapears. Similarly if you set
    Chris> a mark up with, say, :ma and then issue ":'a,.!sort" the
    Chris> mark will dissapear (probably because doing the sort
    Chris> deletes the line with the mark on before re-inserting it).

Emacs is a little bit more anal about preserving the mark.  But the
kind of mark you describe for vim is perfectly usable for most
operations that emacs users do.  You don't need a "current" region
with that kind of command mode; I forgot about that aspect.  Named
bookmarks are just as efficient.

    Chris> Of course not ... just be careful to dodge the wet sponges
    Chris> I throw your direction O:-)

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