begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:20:33PM -0800: [snip] > My favorite vi features: > > 1. efficient cursor movement/editing keys > 2. Macros > 3. putting the cursor over a number and hitting ctrl-a > 4. :set number > 5. http://www.rayninfo.co.uk/vimtips.html
Heh. 1. modality gives over the whole keyboard for editing commands, including efficient cursor movement 2. regex 3. set list 4. macros and abbreviations 5. ! (run command/run command and load input/pipe contents thru command) > I know a lot of you have heard this lament before but: When oh when will I > get vim as the textarea editor in mozilla instead of the standard > braindead notepad like text editor that comes with it? I know there are > plugins etc. but none really seeem to cut the mustard. You would think a > browser written by "hackers" would have a decent editor. I suspect that the codebase out there for the various flavors of vi are not built on top of clean abstractions, and so don't integrate well into the browser. Have you looked to see if the "editor" in some browser is nicely encapsulated and easily replacable with something else? -Stewart "Sounds like yet another LPSG project" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
