From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2005-08-31T22:10:09+09:00 Subject: Re: vim user switch to emacs? Derek Wyatt writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > | Hmm, I'm curious. Can you show me a sample task that made you switch > | to vim? > > I made the switch after being a 5 year Emacs die-hard. There were > two simple things that made me switch. I was doing "big" edits in > emacs and "small" edits in vim. Same here. I touch configuration files mainly with vim, and code with emacs. > I finally asked myself why i was > using 2 editors... i realized i only needed one. The second reason, > however was the very simple difference between the two: moded vs. > modeless operation. With moded operation, i get the "." operator. > That's really all i needed. From the emacs docs: C-x z runs the command repeat Repeat most recently executed command. This command is like the `.' command in the vi editor. > D -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org