Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:12:58 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: OpenOffice Mailing List <openoffice@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: maybe *some* vi-isms embedded in OO.org??? Message-ID: <20071006021258.GA57903@thought.org>
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Hi People,
Considering how completely Outstanding OOo-2.x is, this may be
a futile question. When I first started programming circa
1978, Bill Joy saw the difficulties I was having typing since I
had the use of only one hand. He pointed me at vi, and I haven't
touched anything else since them. My fingers know vi better than my
conscious mind. So I rough draft things that will end up in
OpenOffice in vi first, then edit and run what I've typed thru
a filter.
Since it appears tools like vim will not have OO's capabilities,
does it make sense for OpenOffice to accept a "-v" switch for
plain text entry, and have at least some of vi's (or nvi's)
function? I miss the simplicity of typing ESC followed by a "/"
to do an instant search, for example.
(I can cobble together a shell script to enable part of this; that
is, before I enter word-processing mode. It's just that the vi
paradigm is the most reasonable from where I'm at.)
cheers,
gary kline
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