On Jul 28, 2011, at 12:17 PM, LuKreme wrote: > Greg Shenaut <[email protected]> squaked out on Thu 28-Jul-2011 10:31 >> On Jul 28, 2011, at 8:13 AM, John Delacour wrote: >> >>> At 10:33 -0400 28/07/2011, Tim Gray wrote: >>> >>> >>> What do these motions achieve? Something that cannot be achieved with >>> scripts/keystrokes in BBEdit. I doubt it, but am always ready to be >>> enlightened. >> >> I think it's just that there are some extremely compact, useful sequences >> that become automatic for vi users. Things like “xp”, “5xwep”, “d3w”, “dL", >> and so on. > > Well, if you learn the hated emacs keys, OS X supports those in all sorts of > places. I use ^t all the time (xp in vimspeak). > > Here are the ones that are built-in to OS X, though BBEdit may support more: > > ^A move to the beginning of the paragraph > ^B move backward > ^D delete forward > ^E move to the end of the paragraph > ^F move forward > ^H delete backward > ^K delete to the end of the paragraph > ^L center the selection in the text area > ^N move down > ^O split the current line > ^P move up > ^T transpose letters > ^V move one page down > ^Y yank back ‘killed’ text > > It won’t replace your vim muscle memory, but ^a and ^e and ^t and ^k and ^y > are really quite useful, and you will find you can use them all over the > place, so they are worth learning. >
Howdy, While BBEdit may support these keys (and more!) it isn't because the Apple Text Framework supports them since BBEdit doesn't use that framework AFAIK. Good Luck, Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
