Gentlemen, PLEASE! No editor wars. Neither of you will convince the other,
and all you will do is waste your time and that of the rest of the folks
on this list.
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:09:08PM +1000, Tony McGee wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Mallard pushed some tiny letters in this order:
> > Fredrik Nilsson wrote (in part):
> > > I have made a short list of some useful commands.
> > >
> >
> > WOW, that convinces me, let's see...
> >
> > I want to copy this word so yw, but wait, I have to tell it what word,
> > so Mkkkklllljjjjj on over there near it and then yw and then
> > Mkkkkklljjjll on over to where I want it and drop it in (I hope) p then
>
> I thank the poster of the abbreviated command list for his attempt to help
> those struggling to understand vim. It wasn't an attempt to convince anyone
> of vi's superiority it was just a bit of friendly help.
>
> How is Mkkkklllljjjj etc. any harder from dos edit's "I want to copy
> this word so I have to go to line X with the arrow up/down keys, move over to
> the word using the arrow left/right keys, highlight the word using shift left
> arrow until it's done, press ctrl-c move back to the line where I want to put
> it using arrow keys again, press ctrl-v" ? If anything using vim's left 1
> word/right 1 word key should speed things up in this instance. Note also that
> you can also use the arrow keys in vim to do the same.
>
> > I want to do some insert, let's see is it i or a, or was it I or A, I
> > forgot since yesterday, well let me try it... WHOOPS! I lost what I was
>
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