From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Rustom Mody" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs equivalent of vi % Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:14:45 +0530 Message-ID: References: <48A2AABF.9010402@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218624947 2748 80.91.229.12 (13 Aug 2008 10:55:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:55:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 13 12:56:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KTE1l-00026l-V6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:56:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38641 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KTE0p-0003wd-Uk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:55:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KTDqX-0005A7-6M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:44:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KTDqU-00059D-Ce for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:44:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42901 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KTDqQ-000591-Ux for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:44:48 -0400 Original-Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.172]:56850) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KTDqQ-0003OX-DN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:44:46 -0400 Original-Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so2755599wfc.24 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:44:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=8bU9xD1N91qTqlNWuhKHh2eyQHtbGr/Sb6atRXyjEe4=; b=EB/fNlNBEqNAE5NcoTwUekCSin1WK+ZZJg4tywq1TgxrYydul3PjRFdhec/oV9lI57 45HgvZT7nn68mgxi+wQcdGLcyu2BbaEWu009/W3ylIoKj+eeCuYSRMGkOHnyq1aZKzEq tb5HnAJbAzOhRQ7EFp8boosqVXVHZwdhGz5YI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=SC/uMtdA3STo51Vex7/K0K9Ufy+PrqcGvuwSlJ0uw9/YsvpLdoQKEO914okHbn5O/R IyPOhbpIH8Y2yMwFeZMgLJQ2mq/jQywxoSk9r+3Glt7r9d98MR+k2rsEUDbnKBsKe7cK DfiKDELeeQ/oESBO3EjW0bxFpEfUII/Rhi7HM= Original-Received: by 10.142.169.4 with SMTP id r4mr2553029wfe.63.1218624285548; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:44:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.142.156.11 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:44:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <48A2AABF.9010402@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56551 Archived-At: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ViKeys But this does not answer my problem. In vi you can use the visual (aka VIsual) part or the ex part -- commands that you give with a ':' (somewhat like M-x which puts you in the minibuffer). The % behavior in vi -- paren matchng -- is quite unrelated to the % in ex which substitutes (interpolates) the current file name into the command