[Gllug] ed vs emacs/vi, was: ed vs emacs, was: OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

Wed May 13 19:57:31 UTC 2009

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:41 PM, James Hawtin <oolon at ankh.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 01:19:47PM -0400, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:

> The one thing I find VI very good for is wacking the same change into
> multiple file, such as an include file change, vi *.c do change and grab
> into the buffer, :w :n paste :w :n etc..... and normally I use emacs for
> editing source files. The way howeverit loads multiple files into different
> buffers just do not make it work well in this case.


<evil_stare> I would use awk and sed for those situations.  </evil_stare>
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