Subject: Some Pico Dreams

From: "Robert A. Hayden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 21:39:35 -0600 (CST)

Here's a couple of features I'd like to see added to pico.  Actually, I 
have lots more, but this is all I can remember right now :-)

1)  ABILITY TO START EDITING WITH THE CURSOR AT THE END OF THE FILE
	If you are editing a long file (say, over 50k)	and you save it, 
	you then enter again with the cursor back at the top of the file.
	If there was a flag to allow you to start at the last line of the
	file it would be great.  (I use pico as a daily journal program,
	and each entry appends to that day's file, so that' where a 
	command line flag would be useful to me).

2)  GLOBAL FIND AND REPLACE
	'nuff said, really.  :-)

3)  BETTER ABILITY TO MOVE WITHIN A FILE
	Right now, the only way to go to any location is to either page
	down to it or to hope you remember a word in that area and then 
	do a word search.  If there was a way to have a 'goto' command, 
	that would be most helpful.

	How it might work:
		You can provide pico with some control sequence to have
		a 'goto' prompt.  You can then give it a number.  This
		number is a percentage.  0 is the top of the file, 100
		is the bottom, and in-between is, well, in-between.

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Oh well, just some thoughts.

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 22:38:29 -0800 (PST)

Robert,
Some of these are already on the enhancement list; I'll make sure they 
all get considered.

-teg