[lug] vi editor

[John Starkey]

Found it. Thanks.

On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, John Starkey wrote:

> 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:
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> > 
> > 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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