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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: 10 Mar 1997 13:32:38 -0600 Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5g1nkm$onl$1@Venus.mcs.net> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <857190027.3067.2@msn-4-3.binc.net> <5fsk31$oa7@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <5g19sp$26iq$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: venus.mcs.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:163725 comp.os.linux.networking:71470 comp.os.linux.setup:101881 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6276 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2772 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:56517 comp.os.os2.advocacy:273494 In article <5g19sp$26iq$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, <pgguido@ibm.net> wrote: >| >|I still find vi <more> <user> <friendly> than anything I've >|tried. >| >Yes. You are missing the fact that you are living in the past. >vi is about as user friendly as a kick in the shorts. The whole notion >of editing 'modes' is rediculous and about as modern as a crank starter. Someone should write up a command list for vi where every command-mode command begins with <esc> instead of assuming that you are already in command mode. While this would make it just as ugly as an emacs command list, including the <esc> to terminate any other possible command would make it 'modeless' except for having to use 'a' or 'i' to begin adding text, but surely you can remember this one special case. (And in return you get the ability to use <repeat count> and <undo> with the add-text command which can't work in completely modeless editors). Les Mikesell les@mcs.com