[OpenIndiana-discuss] Graphical Desktop environment on server

[Reginald Beardsley]

vi lacks scriptability?  Could have fooled me.

:m,n! foo

or 

:%! foo

I have a small collection of code editing scripts in awk  I use regularly.   The biggest limitation is remembering I wrote one already and don't need to write a new one.  Lots of things just get done as an awk one liner.

Now if awk weren't available, *that* would be a problem.

Have Fun!
Reg

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On Thu, 1/1/15, Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net> wrote:

 
 PS yes, vi is a PITA to learn, (I had to learn vi decades
 ago having previously used early incarnations of the much
 friendlier Rand Editor), but as a general purpose editor,
 once you _have_ learned it, you can work faster with it than
 with most others.  Having used way too many different
 editors, the only things it lacks are truly scriptable
 extensability (use emacs if you can’t live without that)
 and “folding” (hiding uninteresting lines) like the
 mainframe ISPF editor (have yet to find something as handy
 for that on Unix, although there’s a free sort-of clone
 that may be tolerable (works on Linux, haven’t yet tried
 to compile for Solaris or OS X).