From owner-freebsd-openoffice@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 6 02:12:59 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: openoffice@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC3616A41A for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 02:12:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A14413C457 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 02:12:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l962CxhF058013 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:13:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l962CxYY058012 for openoffice@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:12:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:12:58 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: OpenOffice Mailing List Message-ID: <20071006021258.GA57903@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21 of service to the Unix community. Cc: Subject: maybe *some* vi-isms embedded in OO.org??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-openoffice@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting OpenOffice to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 02:12:59 -0000 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 -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org