On 6/19/07, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
>
> But I wasn't being totally honest. All I want in life is an MRU file
> list in a modeless text editor. ;-)
So you are using nano?
Emacs, with its many many major and minor modes, is far from a modeless
editor. The best editor with the fewest ``modes'' is vim: command,
visual, and insert modes.
Uh oh. Editor flamewar.
-john
% aptitude search mode | grep -wic emacs
18
% aptitude search mode | grep -wic vi
0
Just to give an opinionated view, vi-type editors are essentially
modeless. You just have to realize that some of the commands are very
long. All commands are terminated by <esc>
Like the insert command
iwhole bunch of text, more text, etc etc<esc>
The text to be inserted is part of the command, not something that
magically is done in "insert" mode.
carl
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