[lug] vi editor

[John Starkey]

So what exactly is the fmt though. I get a little confused after the 2x.

{!} according to the howto and your message means filter between the
beginning and end of the paragraph. And in the command line it shows

.,.+2!

What's this saying? And why does it need to show that? I think I can sort
of decrypt it to mean "from here to here and 2 more spaces" but that
sounds kinda dumb. 

And it looks like the fmt is justifying the line.

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Archer Sully wrote:

> 
> 
> John Starkey wrote:
> > 
> > I've never even tried it. Is it easy to migrate from vi to emacs or is it
> > a whole new language.
> > 
> 
> Emacs is kinda like PERL.  Use it every day and its great.  Go away 
> from it for two months and you wonder how you did that stuff.  It is
> about as far from vi as you can get, although there are a couple of
> vi emulators written in elisp for emacs.
> 
> > I'm totally blown away by Sean's creative use of vi. :}
> > 
> 
> That's actually very typical usage for a veteran vi user.  The
> power of the editor is really in its ability to combine movement
> and editing commands.  And the "." command is helpful, too.  Emacs
> can't do that trick.
> 
> -- archer
> 
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