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On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:16:21AM -0500, [hidden email] wrote: > The arcane command set of emacs and vi are very rewarding to those that > use it day in and day out. I can edit any number of files, quickly, switch > between them, substitute text, find, etc. all without my hands leaving the > keyboard and without having to de-focus on what I'm doing and focus on the > "user interface." I think it's also worth pointing out that learning one or the other (or both) has side benefits throughout the unix world... many other tools use key bindings that mimic those of vi and emacs. Most modern shells have command-line editing modes that allow you to choose key bindings of one or the other (e.g. set -o vi or set -o emacs in bash, "POSIX shell", etc.). Pagers like less and some newer versions of more use vi-like key mappings to move through files, search for regular expressions, etc. Even Firefox lets you type a '/' to start a search (assuming the focus is not currently on a text input box)... -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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