Bob La Quey wrote:
I don't know and I don't care since I am a vi bigot ...
But I do recall Stewart once posting something about
a vi user's common habit of idly banging on <ESC> key.
Ever since you made that comment I find myself noticing
it when I do that ...
Ayup. That's the problem with modal states.
You have to ask "What state am I in?" before doing any work. By banging
the ESC key so much, vi users effectively create a "home mode" and
always extend from there.
However, emacs users do the same thing because of modal commands. There
it's called C-g.
I do tend to bang C-g quite a bit (although not normally as much as ESC
in vi, but I chalked that up to inexperience. Apparently it may not
be.) Generally I do so in the context of incremental search and macro
definition.
-a
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