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

[Nix]

On 15 May 2009, damion yates said:

> On Fri, 15 May 2009, Nix wrote:
>
>> One thing in particular that torpedoes me when using lesser editors is
>> the absence of any equivalent to emacs's mark ring. I rely on being
>> able to do things like searches, followed by hopping *back to where I
>> was before*[2]. And *everything* that moves the cursor a large
>> distance or in a way that isn't trivially reversible (so not pg-up)
>> pops the old position on the mark stack.
>> 
>> [2] emacs: C-u C-SPC, two keystrokes. Other editors, no equivalent.
>
> You mean like vim's `` ?

I said I was a vim luser. I am unsurprised that vim has an equivalent,
since vim is obviously trying to turn vi into Emacs. I have no access to
vim on most systems I work on in my day job, only XEmacs and icky
Solaris vi.
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