begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 07:17:37AM -0700: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > >...but I don't get to view what I'm about to do before it's to be done. > > Actually, you do. That sits down on the status line during the replace. Um... not in any version I've used.
> Modern versions of emacs are remarkably good about letting you know what > it's doing while doing so in a way that you can ignore it if you have it > memorized in the extreme. Which is indeed a nice feature. I wouldn't mind vim offering up an extra status line with "helpful prompts" (presumably enableable). Vim already has a ton of help in it, but it's less useful than one would expect... this would be a good idea. I spend much of my time when using emacs trying to figure out how to get out of whatever mode I've accidently put myself into. C-x C-c always works but doesn't always do what I want. :-/ What is the emacs equivalent to vi's <ESC> (abort, abort, abort, put me back to a known good state please)? > However, I'm not trying to convince you about emacs. I find the two to > be relatively interchangeable. > > In the end, it boils down to personal aesthetics. And, I don't consider > that a stupid reason. You are indeed correct. -- Should I ever have a need to write Lisp, I'd want to look at emacs again. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
