- To: slug-chat@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [chat] Editor anxiety
- From: Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat Oct 27 11:23:02 2001
- Reply-by: Tue Oct 30 11:10:21 EST 2001
- Reply-to: chat slug <slug-chat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- User-agent: Mutt/1.3.23i
This one time, at band camp, Ken Foskey wrote:
>mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>Given that the popular UNIX editors are pretty fully featured, does anyone
>>else apart from me ever worry that they aren't getting everything from them
>>that they can? Does anyone else set aside time to try and learn their tools
>>a bit better?
>>
>I accidentally hit # the other day in vi. Now thats cool.
>
>What a way to learn an editor, poke keys and figure out what it does
At dinner last night, vigor and Andre's vimacs were being discussed, and I
thought, if you have vigor (which pops up to make sure you wish to move one
character to the left), then that's a great way to work out what those
arcane key combos do.
Just not very good for real editing... so keep a vigor open next to your
gvim ;)
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<Balial> This port may thing it's fortified, butt I seem to be mounting
a pretty good assault