On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Nick Croft generated:
>On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, David Zverina wrote:
>
>> Use vim .... simplicity of vi with the advantage of color highlighting. It
>
>> <flamebait> I am sure some heathen will suggest emacs too .... but we all
>> know that emacs people are just like the KDE people. PLAIN WRONG!! :)
>> </flamebait>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dave.
>`heathens' is a bit strong, as is `KDE people'.
>vim vs emacs -- looks like the war between Mac users and Windows users
>all over again. In that case both camps might be mistaken.
>
>Seriously, though, how is vim's search facility. I sometimes search
>through thousands of old emails in emacs. Can you do that with vim?
In command mode, hit '/' just as you would in less, mutt, dselect, and
type your text... even handles regexs!
--
jamesw
Written in vi
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