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

[Joel Bernstein]

On 14 May 2009, at 17:06, David Damerell wrote:

> On Thursday, 14 May 2009, Matthew King wrote:
>> James Hawtin <oolon at ankh.org> writes:
>>> nohup however with screen you can monitor the status of your  
>>> download. Then
>>> there is the multiple screens, side-by-side mode, etc. It hardly  
>>> has many
>>> you need to know they all start with Ctrl-A. So its really does  
>>> not have to
>>> much impack on other program use.
>> Therein lies problem 1 - C-a is a very useful keystroke which screen
>> swallows and breaks with problem 2 - To pass an actual C-a you don't
>> push C-a C-a, no, you push C-a a.
>
> Surely everyone changes their screen magic key to something like ^] ?

vi-USER TROLL GONG!

/joel
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