emacs & vi (vim) approaches)

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In a message dated: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:55:31 EST
"Tom Buskey" said:

>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?

Just about anything with GNU in it's name :)  e.g. GnuCash, GNOME 
anything, etc.

>It's similar to all the editors that used wordstar style keys on DOS -
>the Turbo editors, qedit.

And weren't some of those similar to Emacs?  Wasn't there a C-k or 
something which killed a line, and C-n and C-p for next/previous 
lines ?

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