Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:21:16 -0400 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: vim question... Message-ID: <4ad871310906142221y39ee173dg92295799ba0539f2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090615035101.GA33585@thought.org> References: <20090615024643.GA33420@thought.org> <4ad871310906142000x6515bdau8020dafce579745e@mail.gmail.com> <20090615031831.GA33450@thought.org> <4ad871310906142024i70597c40udad1dab11197cc4b@mail.gmail.com> <20090615035101.GA33585@thought.org>
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On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Gary Kline<kline@thought.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:24:29PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Gary Kline<kline@thought.org> 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. ... > Agreed. :) >> > > [ ... ] >> > 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.... > > Interesting idea.... >> >> > 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've found that 'q!' is now muscle-memory to me. When I'm actually in front of a GUI, the Gmail/Firefox spellcheck tends to find most of my typographical mistakes, though unfortunately, not my logic mistakes. :) -- Glen Barber
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