Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's another issue, that of ROI. Having learnt the vi/vim > keystrokes, what does that enable you to do? Use vi/vim, and that's > it.
There are a great many programs whose interactive keybindings come from vi. Perhaps you've heard of 'less', 'screen', 'mutt', or dozens of other frequently-used programs, all of which use 'vi key bindings by default. > Whereas I've found other situations where subsets of Emacs > keystrokes are recognized, such as anything that uses GNU readline Which can also be configured one-time by the user to use 'vi' keybindings everywhere, so the 'vi' fanatic is able to keep using the key bindings they know. I think this argument is silly — both Emacs and vi(m) have enormous following, are both extremely capable editors, and both are clearly the inspiration for many other programs' key bindings. It's ludicrous to say of either program that "once you learn its key bindings you only know how to use that program". -- \ "Welchen Teil von 'Gestalt' verstehen Sie nicht? [What part of | `\ 'gestalt' don't you understand?]" -- Karsten M. Self | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
