Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:51:02 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: vim question... Message-ID: <20090615035101.GA33585@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310906142024i70597c40udad1dab11197cc4b@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090615024643.GA33420@thought.org> <4ad871310906142000x6515bdau8020dafce579745e@mail.gmail.com> <20090615031831.GA33450@thought.org> <4ad871310906142024i70597c40udad1dab11197cc4b@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:24:29PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Gary Kline<kline@thought.org> wrote: > > > > hi glenn, > > One 'n'. :) > gotcha! and see, this is a case of my occasionally typing > 1 key. in vim, typing 'uu' can cause a truckload of code or whatever to vanish. ... > > [ ... ] > > use mutt is that my fingers know vi. unfortunately, there're too > > I use mutt because "it sucks less", quoting the author. be nice if there were a quasi-gui version of mutt.... > > > many things in email now that require a gui reader. be nice to > > be able to read in evo and if i had to reply, use gvim. > > > > Hmm.... Well, for what it's worth, I didn't even know *vi* had an > 'undo' option. I thought that was what 'q!' was for. :) > that's almost funny; i have had to use "q!" all to often if i forget and use vim. it does indeed have some nice features. but if you have to reply using a gui mailer and your typing isn't flawlwss, it's keyboard <-> mouse. > I'm as interested as you are now. > > -- > Glen Barber -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20090615035101.GA33585>