From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 15 03:51:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B19F106564A for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:51:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24B848FC1B for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:51:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n5F3p22O005685; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:51:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:51:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:51:02 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Glen Barber Message-ID: <20090615035101.GA33585@thought.org> References: <20090615024643.GA33420@thought.org> <4ad871310906142000x6515bdau8020dafce579745e@mail.gmail.com> <20090615031831.GA33450@thought.org> <4ad871310906142024i70597c40udad1dab11197cc4b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4ad871310906142024i70597c40udad1dab11197cc4b@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22++ years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.3 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: vim question... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:51:07 -0000 On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:24:29PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > >        hi glenn, > > One 'n'. :) > gotcha! and see, this is a case of my occasionally typing > 1 key. in vim, typing 'uu' can cause a truckload of code or whatever to vanish. ... > > [ ... ] > > use mutt is that my fingers know vi.  unfortunately, there're too > > I use mutt because "it sucks less", quoting the author. be nice if there were a quasi-gui version of mutt.... > > >        many things in email now that require a gui reader.  be nice to > >        be able to read in evo and if i had to reply, use gvim. > > > > Hmm.... Well, for what it's worth, I didn't even know *vi* had an > 'undo' option. I thought that was what 'q!' was for. :) > that's almost funny; i have had to use "q!" all to often if i forget and use vim. it does indeed have some nice features. but if you have to reply using a gui mailer and your typing isn't flawlwss, it's keyboard <-> mouse. > I'm as interested as you are now. > > -- > Glen Barber -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php