Re: A83: OT: emacs...
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Re: A83: OT: emacs...
Daniel M Church wrote:
> I personally think that vi's keyboard commands are stranger... I /still/
> don't know how quit from it besides going to another terminal and kill
> -9'ing it. But hey, I'm an emacs user... I'm biased. Actually, I use
> MicroEmacs... it's a really small (200k) program which is yet a really
> easy to use, functionful (doesn't have eliza, but then who cares :) text
> editor.
I like vi ( or vim) too.. The big pro is that it exist in almost all systems.
And it is (at least vim) really powerfull. I saw once a guy who really knew vi..
it was amazing. he reformattet and stuff in notime.
anyway, to quit:
if you are in edit-mode, go to command-mode with esc. then write :q to quit, :q!
to force quit (without save) and :x to exit with save.
The thing most people have problems with in vi, is the concept of two modes,
edit-mode and command-mode.
It is quite nice sometimes. one thing I like with vi is that the commands are
actually quite logic. :) to go to insert-mode from command, press i. to
append, press a. to append to end of the line you are at press A (more
powerfull). another thing is this command mulitplying thing. to delete a line,
press dd (in command-mode), and if you want to delet multiple lines, pres for
exampel 303dd and you will delete 303 lines. fast and nice. the same thing
with all commands that a mulitplying need. (42x = delete 42 char to the right
of cursor)
Anyway, maybe we should leave this off topic thread now.. :)
//Olle
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