[Gllug] vi vs emacs (repeat)

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 9 Mar 2005, Nix wrote:
>>commands and they take potentially lengthy arguments, that's
>>all. Thinking of "insert mode" discourages useful tricks which use
>>insert commands as part of more complex structures.
>While this is true, it's rather counterintuitive, isn't it? I know that
>when I'm typing things I don't *think* of all the text I'm typing as
>a titanic postfixed argument to the command I happened to use to
>start the typing.

I do, and ultimately it helps.

>>A proper vi user uses :wq not ZZ. :-)
>I always used :wq.
>Why *does* it have a near-duplicate command in the shape of ZZ, anyway?

I don't know why, but it was added in vi - it's not in ex.

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