Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 02:34:20 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, James A Wilde <james.wilde@telia.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <19991124023420.C319@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <19991123211503.A2618@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <009901bf35ee$d892ef60$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911231240360.4557-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> <19991123211503.A2618@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 09:15:03PM +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > 0 - goto beginning of line > > Really? Hmm. I always used "^" for that (I can remember it easily -- "^" > and "$" for beginning of line and end of line just make sense), still, > "0" is one less key press, I suppose. :-) > The differnce is that ``0'' moves to the first character, whereas ``^'' moves to the first non-blank character. Makes a difference with indented lines, e.g. code. > -- > Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D > ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and > | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PERL has been described as "the duct tape of the Internet" and "the Unix Swiss Army chainsaw" - Computer Shopper 12/99 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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