From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 20 7:54:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B3D437B8A6 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 07:54:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12iIIk-000Iut-00; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:51:30 +0200 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:51:30 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: David Scheidt Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Alexander Langer , Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ViM vs. Emacs Message-ID: <20000420165130.A72664@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000420175141.B5893@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from dscheidt@enteract.com on Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 09:38:32AM -0500 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 2000-04-20 (09:38), David Scheidt wrote: > > Some things like multiple-level undo/redo work differently. > > I like vim's way of doing that better. Depends what you're > > used to, I suppose. But on vim, you can recover your unmodified > > document by pressing u again and again: on nvi I think the ability > > to recover past changes is more limited. > > :e! > > u should toggle changes. If you want multiple level undo, do it right, not > by overloading basic functionality. :set compatible or :set cpoption+=u Lack of multi-level undo is terrible, though. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Hacker In Chief, Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message