emacs & vi (vim) approaches)

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, at 7:56am, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
>> 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 ?

  CTRL+Y killed a line.  For movement, "diamonds" were used.  CTRL+D moved
forward one character, CTRL+S back one character, CTRL+X down one line,
CTRL+E up one line, CTRL+A back one word, CTRL+F forward one word.  It did
use multi-character sequences, such as CTRL+K,B to begin a block (similar to
setting the mark in Emacs), and CTRL+K,X to exit.

  I can't believe I remember this stuff.

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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