On 7/8/07, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 08 Jul 2007 13:24:48 Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > On 7/8/07, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tried the visual mode in vim? <esc>+v at the start, then use any other > > navigation command to take you to the end. Either yank or delete with y > > or d. Then paste with p or P. Equally easy methinks. > > I didn't know this one. Thanks, since I have to use vim at work; sadly > no emacs on our systems there. Vim is really cool -- it's just that I > prefer emacs if given a choice. > > Btw, this discussion could head to yet another 'vi vs emacs' type debate. Nah. Right now it is quite civilised and informative. As it is, I've been a vim user since day 1; but I'm really interested in learning Emacs anyway.
Same here. The side-effect benefit is that you get a lisp environment as a bonus. Methinks; its a big advantage to know vim; since; by default it'll be
available on most systems.
True, but with nasty terminals/terminal settings, I've seen people curse vi/vim for requiring to hammer the 'i' key a few times to get into insert mode. Regards, Mohan S N -- The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
