Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:52:31 -0500 From: Matthew Fuller <fullermd@linkfast.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ViM vs. Emacs Message-ID: <20000420105231.J43688@linkfast.net> In-Reply-To: <20000420211628.A7696@physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 09:16:28PM %2B0530 References: <20000420175141.B5893@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000420093706.7633D-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> <20000420211628.A7696@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 09:16:28PM +0530, a little birdie told me that Rahul Siddharthan remarked > > Suppose you want to go back only part of the way? You did some > complicated stuff which you want to keep, then you did some other > complicated stuff which you want to undo. With vim you just need to > keep pressing "u" till you're satisfied. With nvi you may not be able > to do it. > > Being used to the vim keybindings, I initially thought nvi didn't have > multiple undo. Then I found it did, and started using it, but then I > got into the above situation a few times and didn't like it, so it's > "alias vi vim" now. The way it is makes sense to me. u undo's your last change. Then you keep hitting '.' to keep undoing back as far as you want. Hitting 'u' again instead of '.' lets you undo the undo's, which is FAR more valuable then continuing to undo. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@linkfast.net Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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