From: Stefan Schmiedl <s@...>
Date: 2005-09-01T00:01:25+09:00
Subject: Re: vim user switch to emacs?

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:20:46 +0900, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:

>> 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

vim lets you put any command after the global pattern. How does emacs solve this
with its interactive parameter queries?

>
>> :%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 ... !

I don't know enough emacs to see through the dots, but that's not important.

>
>> 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 )

That's the main difference for me. I just can't remember all those meta/control
combinations. the vim command maps better to my brain.

>
>> all of this without breaking my fingers because of the unlucky
>> positioning of CTRL.
>
> Just curious: How do you leave vim's input mode?

with a swish of the hand to the ESC button ... don't ask how often
I hit ESC while I typed this message in Opera ...

s.