Re: Emacs and vim analogs

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Ken Goldman wrote:
> M G Berberich wrote:

>> emacs. But both are not doing what '.' does in vim. With vims . you
>> can repeate commands like “replace next three word with …”, “indent 5
>> lines”, “append … to line” or “replace rest of line with …” (where … 
>> stands for some text). This is not possible with emacs
>> because there is no implicit grouping of inserted characters, so C-x z
>> repeats the last character typed, which is completely useless.
> 
> The statement "This is not possible with emacs" is typically false.
> 
> Complex commands such as you describe are easily done with keyboard 
> macros.  There are so useful that I have the start, end, and execute 
> functions assigned to function keys.


Or you can use Viper mode in Emacs. At least in Emacs 22 (pretest) it is 
very good.