+------------------------------------------------------ Rob -----------+ > On 21 November 2011 09:15, Yoshi Rokuko <[email protected]> wrote: > > it seems that i cannot communicate my point - why are vi-styled-key- > > binding-styled-interfaces so popular? > > It's not vi-style, it's Unix. If you come from a Windows background, > you'll be used to Ctrl+Backspace to delete a word, or Shift+Home, > Backspace to delete a line. Unix has C-W and C-U, it's just muscle > memory.
i really like ^U, ^W, ^H, ^A, ^E unfortunatly these are not vim default, what i meant was stuff like vimperator, cmus and so on. but like you said its muscle memory.
