Stewart Stremler wrote: > 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).
Actually, don't you really have to consider command-line (ex?) and visual (^v) as modes distinct from the *normal* (command) mode. IIRC, vim docs lists even more things under the name of /mode/. All things considered, though, the remarks about esc-terminated commands is helpful in teaching and understanding. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
