On 16 Mar 2018 14:28:15 -0600 "Andy Bradford" <[email protected]> wrote: Andy Bradford writes: > Thus said Paul Fox on Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:59:57 -0400: > > > The big exception that I remember was his implementation of infinite > > undo using '.', which broke a corner case of the redo command, but is > > so easy to use. > > Oddly enough, that is one exception that I praise and the one difference > between nvi and vim that I cannot live without. I use infinite undo via > '.' all the time, but not only that, I'm impressed by how I can > ``reverse'' the direction of the undo and '.' repeats that decision.
Early in Vim's life I had emailed Moolenaar to suggest that vim emulate nvi's behavior for the '.' command, at least as an option. He declined to do so and I continued using nvi. Rapidly switching undo/redo direction in vim with e.g. uuu^R^R^Ruu^R^R is much harder on my left thumb (& brain) than vi's u..u..u.u. May be because reversing direction == u turn! -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
