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From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: Slight Problem With Vi in 1.1
Message-ID: <Ct2M3M.A8@tfs.com>
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
References: <1994Jul15.071723.18957@turtle.apana.org.au> <3096ll$m0c@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <30agrt$2gh@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1994 06:02:10 GMT
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In article <30agrt$2gh@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>,
Jan Klier <klier@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>Speaking of new/old features:
>A thing I really dislike about the new vi is that it is unable to handle
>a - in the filename. If you edit a file and then use the :e command to
>load another file, this new file cannot have a - in its filename or you
>get a nice help message that doesn't help you in any way.
I miss the "=" command
in case any of you haven't tried it..
go into elvis and edit a text file..
type several short lines of words that you'd like to be reformatted into
some paragraph (as if in mail or something) and hit "N=="
where N is the number of lines you want formated into the paragraph..
and it calls an external program to reformat those lines..
nvi says 'No "=" command'
drats
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