On Aug 27, 11:22 pm, Mikalai Chaly <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:18 AM, pansz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > PS: The original VI is designed for a keyboard which colon is a single
> > key, no need to press 'shift'.
>
> Yes - here it is:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A
> Very useful location on Esc, Ctrl. And looks like colon is presses as is.
Thanks for that; figure 3-1 in the operator's manual shows that the
colon was to the right of the 0 key, and shifted gave an asterisk. (A
shifted semicolon was a plus).
I suggested this in this list a couple of years ago:
I suspect that on Bill Joy's original keyboard a colon was not a
shifted key press.
But Tony responded:
Ex's command prompt was a colon. When the vi(sual) command was
added
to ex it made sense for the temporary escape to ex mode to be a
colon
as well.
Sure, I miss "Repeat latest f, t, F or T" but I can map something else
when it's needed. One of those things you wish you'd done decades
before.
Regards, John
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