On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:55:03 -0500, Mark van der Eynden wrote:
>> rather I loathe XEDIT's behavior of always scrolling to put the search target
>on CURLINE.
>
>From fading memory, have you tried 'set stay on'
>
Isn't that the one that suppresses positioning to the bottom of the
file on an unsuccessful search (moronic behavior, but I suppose
it's some programmers' alternative to "BOTTOM")? I'm thinking of
successful searches.
>> I'd rather have regular expressions.
>
>Must have come from the *nix world, never heard of them, or needed them ;-)
>
Well, no one _needs_ them. As Knuth cited:
The Sears & Roebuck catalogue for 1897 contains the useful advice:
âIf you donât find it in the index, look very carefully through
the entire catalogue.â
Regular expressions, like indexes, are just very useful tools to find
things. Will the contributor to this thread who claimed XEDIT has
regular expressions please step forward and explain to me how I may
use them?
-- gil
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