On Tue, 19 May 2009 14:29:33 -0700, Charlie Kester
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> Another one that took a long time for me to learn was ^] which doesn't
> seem to have any obvious connection to the word "tag".
It's a right bracket, and it takes you right to the definition of a
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On Thu, 21 May 2009 17:28:57 -0700, Charlie Kester
wrote:
> On Thu 21 May 2009 at 11:15:55 PDT Matthew Winn wrote:
> >
> >On Tue, 19 May 2009 14:29:33 -0700, Charlie Kester
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Another one that took a long time for me to learn was ^] which d
membering
it. I mean, seriously: when did any regular vi or vim user need a
mnemonic to save a file?
> -- On my Belgian keyboard, the colon needs no shift, whixh by your
> argument makes :x "fewer" keystrokes than ZZ
The same, surely, unless your return key hits itself.
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;it works for me and
if it doesn't for you that's just tough". So I can confidently predict
that ten, twenty, a hundred years from now formatted email will still
be a complete mess, and it'll still true that the only way to send
s
ed about blind users you wouldn't be advocating a
policy that's aimed squarely at people who can see a whole screen full
of visual cues.
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, but there are people who are adamant that
they do everything faster one way even though they don't. People hate
to admit error, even if that means building a fantasy world in which
what they want to believe is true. You insist that reading top-posted
messages is faster, but I bet a clock wou
port regular
expressions the use of such expressions looks like a trick that is
difficult to understand, but only to people whose knowledge of the
language is lacking.
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ky for
> +Emacs takes way too much time to start up and run, it is to big and bulky for
It missed the second to => too.
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pplication, but that's not terribly useful.) It's far from
ubiquitous, and very few people are going to go to the trouble of
installing a new language just to use a plugin.
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on't match the real terminal size there's not much Vim can do about
it except trust that you know what you're doing.
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interfered and I
haven't had the time.
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as at the time the dominant method of flow control.
Also, I have a certain amount of distaste for anything associated with
Richard Stallman.
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s there are still people around who are using
something like 3-wire RS-232 there's no reason not to disable ^S/^Q
flow control while running Vim. I've certainly never had any problem
treating them as ordinary characters.
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