Cheery [cool] morning to all. Someone expressing the joys of vi to me
last night sent this to me. The Struggle:
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/struggle1.gif
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In a message dated: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 08:43:59 EST
Chris said:
>Sounds like Wordstar to me :-)
It is, that's the point :)
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And I just realized someone already said that... Doh!
Chris wrote:
> Sounds like Wordstar to me :-)
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, at 7:56am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >> It's similar to all the editors that used wordstar style keys on DOS -
> > >> the Turbo editor
Sounds like Wordstar to me :-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, at 7:56am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> It's similar to all the editors that used wordstar style keys on DOS -
> >> the Turbo editors, qedit.
> >
> > And weren't some of those similar to Emacs? Wasn't there a C-k or
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, at 7:56am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> It's similar to all the editors that used wordstar style keys on DOS -
>> the Turbo editors, qedit.
>
> And weren't some of those similar to Emacs? Wasn't there a C-k or
> something which killed a line, and C-n and C-p for next/previous
In a message dated: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:55:31 EST
"Tom Buskey" said:
>John Abreau said:
>>I tend to use emacs mostly for coding and scripting, as most of the stuff
>>I'd do in vi is second nature at this point, whereas I still have to
>>think about how to do a lot of things in emacs.
>
>I'm ama
On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 04:55 PM, Tom Buskey wrote:
I'm amazed at how many places you find emacs style keystrokes.
Mozilla, exmh's sedit, interleaf, bash, ksh, tcsh. Others?
It's similar to all the editors that used wordstar style keys on DOS -
the Turbo editors, qedit.
How many app
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:55:31PM -0500, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Abreau said:
> >I tend to use emacs mostly for coding and scripting, as most of the stuff
> >I'd do in vi is second nature at this point, whereas I still have to
> >think about how to do a lot of things in emac
John Abreau said:
>I tend to use emacs mostly for coding and scripting, as most of the stuff
>I'd do in vi is second nature at this point, whereas I still have to
>think about how to do a lot of things in emacs.
I'm amazed at how many places you find emacs style keystrokes.
Mozilla, exmh's se
John Abreau said:
>I'm sort of in between. I've been using vi since 1983, and emacs since
>1996.
>I tend to use emacs mostly for coding and scripting, as most of the stuff
>I'd do in vi is second nature at this point, whereas I still have to
>think about how to do a lot of things in emacs.
I
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"Tom Buskey" said:
> My vi skills are not as good as my emacs skills. The discussion helps.
I'm sort of in between. I've been using vi since 1983, and emacs since
1996.
I tend to use emacs mostly for codi
In a message dated: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:25:53 EST
"Tom Buskey" said:
>My vi skills are not as good as my emacs skills. The discussion helps.
I have to agree. I've always used vi et al as a "quick'n'dirty"
editor for things I need to do real quickly. Anything that I need to
spend a lot of ti
Michael O'Donnell said:
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>
>As I've said before, I suspect that emacs- and
>perl-users are actually the higher life forms;
>it's just that I don't know how to use them and so
>keep falling back on vi and the other tools that I
>already know...
Like the awkqustion going on. If I'm doing lots of
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