emacs & vi (vim) approaches)

Bob Bell bobbell at zk3.dec.com
Fri Nov 15 17:37:39 EST 2002


On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:55:31PM -0500, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> 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 emacs.
> 
> I'm amazed at how many places you find emacs style keystrokes.  
> Mozilla, exmh's sedit, interleaf, bash, ksh, tcsh.  Others?

vim.  Well, okay, not by default, but open up vim as see ":help
emacs-keys" to get emacs-style editing on vim's command-line.

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