On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:27:11PM -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > another, better, reason, is that ^W is already used for something > else. i tried your mappings for a while last night (i've been > using vi since about 1987, so there wasn't much hope) and darn > near went mad.
Now you know how I feel. I've been doing this for weeks! ;) > curious -- what features does vim have that's got you interested > in exploring vim: the-modal-editor-from-purgatory? You mean other than trying to use Emacs first?... Well, it seems like a nice, powerful text-based editor that I could extend as needed. I want to use it for coding (Perl and C). Not perfect reason but there's enough vim devotees that I'm curious, too. Lately, I do more email than anything else so I figured that using vim for email would be a good way to learn. And it's really got me curious because I'm sure I'm not using it efficiently yet -- everyone else can't be pressing this many keystrokes for simpler operations, I figure. ;) > quite. i've learned to have a blank line going before i paste in > some goodies, to make it easier to delete if i've got autoindent > on (or paste off): > > type type type <newline> > <newline> > <paste> > whoops! icky formatting -- <esc> d { { Whew. And it's really <esc> d shift { { i See why I miss ^U for undo? I imagined vim users had keys mapped to do all those common tasks. Now is the time I'd like that short-cut to cut all text from here to my signature line. <esc> V (down, down, down) x. Now, I'm sure I'm doing that the hard way. Can you describe your email editing sessions with vim? Seems like a simple use of an editor: - I prune text (dd is one extra keystroke, <esc> shift v, down, down, down, is also too many strokes) [^K in nano] - I edit paragraphs and re-justify them as I type [^J] - I move text/paragraphs up/down. [^K^K^K move and ^U to paste] - I paste in text and code examples that I don't want wrapped (and often want indented). - I trim left over text down to my sig. Isn't that what everyone does when writing mail? Thanks, -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]