begin quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:02:04PM -0700: > 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.
I've heard folks argue that vi has escape-terminate input commands, but we call 'em "modes" out of historical accident, and in reality vi is modeless (or single-mode). -- The vim visual selection breaks that abstraction, alas. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
