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- From: terry@santafe.edu (Terry Jones)
- Subject: Re: Two ideas for implementing repeat-last-command
- Message-ID: <9207240311.AA01128@sfi.santafe.edu>
- Sender: root@news.cs.indiana.edu (Operator)
- Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 21:11:35 MDT
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- luis> The following two ideas for implementing repeat-last-command dawned
- luis> on me while reading the GNU Emacs manual:
- luis>
- luis> [1] ...
- luis> [2] ...
-
- how about
- [3] Use VIP mode and type "."
-
-
- I don't understand why more people don't use VIP mode. It seems so
- much like the best of both worlds. Plus, Aamod Sane's
- (sane@cs.uiuc.edu) new version of VIP mode is very faithful to the
- original vi. In fact, it fixes problems in vi - like adding counts to
- things you couldn't give a count to, saving the yank buffer between
- file switches, allowing you to view the registers and marks, and more.
-
- If you tried the old VIP mode and didn't like it, I don't blame you.
- The new version is *far* superior.
-
- I guess if you've always used emacs, you wont agree that VIP mode is
- the best of both worlds. But if you came to emacs from the vi world (I
- did and I'd never go back, even if VIP mode (now) suddenly
- disappeared) and don't use VIP mode, then maybe you miss being able to
- do things like d3f/ and dw and so on.
-
- Comments anyone? For instance, how do you 'pure' emacs folks do things
- like delete the text from point to the place 3 slashes further on on
- the line? Use the mouse, a mark and a C-w ? Emacs before the days of
- mice must have been really torturous for this sort of stuff (from the
- vi viewpoint).
-
- I'd be happy to leave VIP mode behind if I could just do things as
- quickly in pure emacs.
-
- Not meaning to start anything here, just wondering. Maybe this would
- have been better in comp.editors.
-
- Terry Jones (terry@santafe.edu)
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