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Re: Hard to switch from vi
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Hard to switch from vi |
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Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:26:40 -0500 |
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> So far, my understanding is that Emacs takes more key strokes on the
> average to accomplish same purposes. It bothers me a little at
> this point.
Of course, Emacs takes more keystrokes to do what `vi' does well.
And conversely, vi takes more keystrokes to do what Emacs does well.
E.g. I never "delete 5 lines". Instead I "delete this sub-expression" where
the sub-expression may indeed occupy 5 lines, but I don't bother counting
it: C-M-k.
Stefan
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