From: Logan Capaldo Date: 2005-08-31T22:46:47+09:00 Subject: Re: vim user switch to emacs? On Aug 31, 2005, at 9:20 AM, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > "Stefan Schmiedl" writes: > > >> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:37:54 +0900, Christian Neukirchen >> wrote: >> >> >>> Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT writes: >>> >>> >>>> When people hear me say "Emacs is great. It only lacks a good >>>> editor." >>>> they first think that is meant to be a funny remark. It is not. >>>> Emacs >>>> is a great program I use for many tasks but when it comes to quite >>>> advanced editing tasks I usually save the file, do the complex >>>> editing >>>> in vim, then switch back to Emacs. >>>> >>> >>> Hmm, I'm curious. Can you show me a sample task that made you >>> switch >>> to vim? >>> >> >> The global command, for example: >> >> :%g/\[CRON\]/d deletes all (uninteresting) cron entries in my >> auth.log >> > > C-x h M-x flush-lines \[CRON\] RET > > >> :%g/Customer$/s/\([^ ]*\) \([^ ]*\)/&2, &1/g >> .... give and take a few \ in front of parentheses ... >> exchanges the first and second space delimited word in lines >> ending with Customer >> > > M-% ... RET ... ! > > >> Being able to record arbitrary command sequences like (not a real >> life example) >> df.3j04 p (cut upto and including . and paste the deletion 3 lines >> down after column 4) >> > > C-x ( M-z . M-3 C-n C-a M-4 C-f C-y C-x ) > > Execute with C-x e as often as you want, or bind it to a key of your > choice. (Untested, I just wrote down what I'd intuitively type.) > > >> and of course my favourite vim application: vimoutliner >> (www.vimoutliner.org) >> > > Ok, outliners. There are lots of them for Emacs but I admit I don't > really like any of them (I prefer org-mode). I know I tried > vimoutliner once, but I can't recall how it was... I think I was not > too impressed. I use OPML Editor for now when I need outlines. > > >> all of this without breaking my fingers because of the unlucky >> positioning of CTRL. >> > > Just curious: How do you leave vim's input mode? > > I'm not the OP, but probably the same way I do, ESC. >> s. >> > -- > Christian Neukirchen http:// > chneukirchen.org > >