Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:05:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: David Scheidt <rufus@brain.mics.net>, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: code density vs readability Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110021804040.38926-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <20011002222232.B28111@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: :David Scheidt said on Oct 2, 2001 at 16:13:46: :> > That apart, I found vim's "multiple undo" scheme much more sensible :> > than nvi's. (u for undo, repeatedly if desired, ^R for redo. Also :> > more compatible with "traditional vi" where u is always undo, but once :> :> Bull feathers! That's entirely unlike real vi. That's u undoes, and u :> again redoes the changes. : :Sorry, you're right. I somehow had the other impression, with my :earlier use of ibm and irix machines; but I checked on hp-ux and dec :unix just now and it matches with what you say. Irix vi doesn't do recursed undo. It behaves as David describes above. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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