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-=> Accession wrote to Gamgee <=-

 > Hahaha, yep.  I use nano for nearly every text-editing task
 > (including writing this message from within MultiMail).  The one use
 > I still have for vim is that it can deal with "Ctrl-A" codes in a
 > SBBS file.  In case it wasn't widely known, you can add a Ctrl-A code
 > in vim by first doing "Ctrl-V", then "Ctrl-A", then the actual color
 > code or whatever.  I don't know another "plain" text editor that does
 > that. Very useful to me every now and then.

 Ac> I just tested this and it works. You have to be in insert mode, so hit
 Ac> "i" first.

Yep.

 Ac> Thanks for that tidbit. That can definitely come in handy! I think I've
 Ac> just used nano by cutting an entire line with the CTRL-A codes on them
 Ac> (using CTRL-K), pasting it again (and again, if needbe, using CTRL-U)
 Ac> so I have a bunch I can change the color codes on. This would
 Ac> definitely make things easier, though. ;)

Yes, it is very handy for a quick/minor edit to a menu file, or a logon 
display file, or similar.  Certainly much easier than using an ANSI 
editor and then the ans2asc utility, unless it's a major change or a new 
file perhaps.




... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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