From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kin Cho Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: simple editor required Date: 11 Jun 2003 18:05:50 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <7i3cig5clt.fsf@neoscale.com> References: <1K1Da.3886$7E.44637@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <84of1c78ka.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055380124 7186 80.91.224.249 (12 Jun 2003 01:08:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 01:08:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 12 03:08:40 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19QGZz-0001rT-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 03:08:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19QGbj-0006qZ-VL for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 21:10:27 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.arcor-online.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!12.24.46.66!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.24.46.66 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1055379953 17191791 12.24.46.66 (16 [151019]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114384 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10878 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10878 Benjamin Rutt writes: > "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > > > Anyway, I find the time spent downloading and building Emacs on such a > > site a better investment than the time spent pressing the ESC key in > > vi and cursing when I forget to do that. > > My favorite is when you are in vi insert mode and you decide to use > the arrow keys to move the cursor. Gee, I really love having A, B, C > or D inserted when I hit the keys which should take me up, down left > or right. Way to go, vi! > -- > Benjamin However, If you'd haven't forgotten to press ESC, you'd be rewarded with the ability to use the much quicker kjhl keys to move around. -kin