-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > There is a cognitive load issue. The prime example I use for this is > the "search-and-replace" functionality in vi vs. emacs. Search and > replace in vi *never* sticks in my brain. There are other things like that.
That seems strange to me but maybe it is a matter of familiarity. Search and replace in vi is just regex. :%s/foo/bar is almost like instinct to me and pretty intuitive. I know you know how to do search and replace in vi but just to explain how I remember it.... : enters command mode (which we use for so many things like saving and quitting), % operates on the whole buffer (which we use for search and replace and piping to external commands such as sort etc.), and s/foo/bar/ is just a normal regex like we use in perl. So it is a composition of functions that we use for various other things. > Different strokes for different folks. Indeed. I am still learning emacs but at the moment I find that I can do :%s/foo/bar faster than I can type M-x ... ok, I guess I need to get out the manual. SEE!?!?! ;) - -- Tracy R Reed Read my blog at http://ultraviolet.org Key fingerprint = D4A8 4860 535C ABF8 BA97 25A6 F4F2 1829 9615 02AD Non-GPG signed mail gets read only if I can find it among the spam. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGatqr9PIYKZYVAq0RAsHqAJ9zmNJwepQCQg+fiIYWLdDHfyjvNQCeNOJb sozh7L7NHAFV58k3pXQc4XM= =ntjC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
