From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 2 18: 4:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [63.86.88.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54CCE37B405 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:04:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 1C81A7567; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:05:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079851D8E; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:05:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:05:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: David Scheidt , j mckitrick , "Gary W. Swearingen" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: code density vs readability In-Reply-To: <20011002222232.B28111@lpt.ens.fr> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: :David Scheidt said on Oct 2, 2001 at 16:13:46: :> > That apart, I found vim's "multiple undo" scheme much more sensible :> > than nvi's. (u for undo, repeatedly if desired, ^R for redo. Also :> > more compatible with "traditional vi" where u is always undo, but once :> :> Bull feathers! That's entirely unlike real vi. That's u undoes, and u :> again redoes the changes. : :Sorry, you're right. I somehow had the other impression, with my :earlier use of ibm and irix machines; but I checked on hp-ux and dec :unix just now and it matches with what you say. Irix vi doesn't do recursed undo. It behaves as David describes above. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message