On 6/20/07, Evan Klitzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/20/07, Martin Gregorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Amongst its benefits are that you can do anything its capable of by > > using only a standard QUERTY keyboard plus ESC - no function keys, etc > > are needed - which can save your bacon if somebody misconfigured your > > console or the computer is dieing. > > While it is true that the original incarnation of vi only uses the > "regular" keyboard keys and the escape key, to make vi not painful to > use there are a whole slew of commands that have been added in vim and > other vi clones to add basic features, and many of these commands use > Ctrl (or some other function key). For example, the original vi lacks > a redo command (!), and consequently the redo command sequence in vim > is Ctrl-r. I don't think nearly as many people would use vi if none > of the Ctrl sequence commands present on modern versions of vi were > available due to the lack of features like this one.
Sorry to reply to my own message, but if I didn't someone else would have corrected me! It's not that the original vi didn't have redo, but it didn't have multiple undo, so using undo twice would effectively function as a redo. -- Evan Klitzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
