From: Rudolf Polzer <AntiATField_adsgohere@...>
Date: 2002-11-19T02:29:12+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyConf 2002 Slides for FreeRIDE Presentation

Scripsit ille Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com>:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 08:07:44AM +0900, Rudolf Polzer wrote:
> > Scripsit ille  JamesBritt <james@jamesbritt.com>:
> > > > c) Emacs...well if you are an Emacs user there will never be anything
> > > > better, but for the rest of humanity...there is FreeRIDE ;-)
> > > 
> > > I was going to mention vi, but then decided against it.
> > 
> > Forget vi, you cannot even select text using it (you have to press <c-g>
> > at the start and the beginning of a block to get the line numbers which
> > you have to type in for the command). Also, vi doesn't have ZQ for "quit
> > and don't save", as well as no syntax-highlighting.
> 
> ma to mark the start of a block, then d'a to delete all the lines
> between the start and the cursor.  or d`a to delete all the characters
> between the start and the cursor.

Thanks! I'll try to get used to this.

> Quit and don't save is :q!

Which is three keypresses more than ZQ:

ZQ = Shift-Z-Q
:q! = Shift-.-q-Shift-1-Return

Same with US key bindings. But this isn't really an argument since it
can be 'map'ped away.

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