[Gllug] ed vs emacs/vi, was: ed vs emacs, was: OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

[- Tethys]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Joel Bernstein <joel at fysh.org> wrote:

> I find I use marks very rarely. Typically only for jumping the cursor
> between two points in the same file. Typically though I would use two
> windows onto the same buffer to achieve that though. I use visual
> selection mode a lot though (I like the word-selection keys etc, like
> "iw" for inner-word etc) and would miss that. Is it present in nvi,
> elvis and so on?

No, AFAIK neither nvi or elvis have visual select. I wasn't aware of
vim's concept of an "inner word" before you mentioned it. I'm a little
confused about its purpose, though. What does it give you that you
couldn't do already with e/E?

Tet

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