On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 10:02, Travis Stevenson wrote: > > I've had vi beep at me for hitting what should be normal keys a lot. I > > thought that was half the fun for you guys, or something. > > Normal keys? Nothing's normal about it.
:) I meant normal keys like backspace. > Anything that was built for dumb > terminals and still exists today is not normal. > > --Travis > That may be a tribute to the excellent design of vi (did I just say that? I mean it's a tribute to how zealous some geeks are, won't even upgrade their text editor :). The technology has changed, but the editor is still the same. Emacs is pretty darn old too. Change is good in a lot of places, but apparently not in text editors. Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
