From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 23 18:36:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9DA23150BF for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:36:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 27179 invoked from network); 24 Nov 1999 02:34:21 -0000 Received: from userak39.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.134.13) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 24 Nov 1999 02:34:21 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id CAA00674; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 02:34:20 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 02:34:20 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Alfred Perlstein , James A Wilde , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <19991124023420.C319@marder-1> References: <009901bf35ee$d892ef60$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> <19991123211503.A2618@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991123211503.A2618@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 09:15:03PM +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > 0 - goto beginning of line > > Really? Hmm. I always used "^" for that (I can remember it easily -- "^" > and "$" for beginning of line and end of line just make sense), still, > "0" is one less key press, I suppose. :-) > The differnce is that ``0'' moves to the first character, whereas ``^'' moves to the first non-blank character. Makes a difference with indented lines, e.g. code. > -- > Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D > ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and > | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PERL has been described as "the duct tape of the Internet" and "the Unix Swiss Army chainsaw" - Computer Shopper 12/99 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message