begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:02:04PM -0700: > 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.
Why is it a problem? 'cuz some of the cognitive science wankers have declared modes to be evil? > 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. Yup. And when I stop my bike at a light, I downshift and position my left foot... creating a "home mode" when I'm riding a bike. It's a comfortable metaphor. Modes are where one sees 'em. > However, emacs users do the same thing because of modal commands. There > it's called C-g. Seekrit Emacs knowlij! Woo! > 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. It seems to be a better solution than my habit of just closing the emacs window and starting it up again... -- Can't seem to handle making control the escape key. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
