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Article #3987Re: is it really worth the time to go from vi to emacs?
From: George V. Reilly
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:00
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In article <31D0D15E.2312@best.com>, Emil P. Rojas <emilr@best.com> wrote: ) Larry Riedel wrote: ) > The vi editor provides a certain set of capabilities; these capabilities ) > are isomorphically represented through the VIPER package which comes with ) > GNU emacs, and the vastly larger set of capabilities provided by emacs is ) > accessible concurrently with those provided through VIPER. In my mind ) > there is no concept of "emacs vs. vi" since emacs can be treated as an ) > extension of vi. There is a default key mapping in emacs for the basic ) > editing commands which can easily be replaced by a vi key mapping. ) ) Is this the same as the VIP mode? I used this a couple of years ago, ) and decided against using it when I found vile. If the vi mode is improved ) I would be interested in trying it again. Viper is derived from VIP, but it's much improved. I recommend giving it a try. If you prefer something smaller and lighter, try Vim. -- /George V. Reilly Vim 4 (vi clone) for NT & Windows 95 <gvr@halcyon.com> http://www.halcyon.com/gvr/ pgp fingerprint: e2 b4 83 64 11 52 21 ea bf d8 51 c2 11 00 78 fc
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102b9a,51d854ca9043b00f X-Google-Attributes: gid102b9a,public X-Google-Thread: 107393,51d854ca9043b00f X-Google-Attributes: gid107393,public X-Google-Thread: 103b8b,51d854ca9043b00f X-Google-Attributes: gid103b8b,public From: gvr@coho.halcyon.com (George V. Reilly) Subject: Re: is it really worth the time to go from vi to emacs? Date: 1996/06/28 Message-ID: <4qvg7r$462@news1.halcyon.com> X-Deja-AN: 162490053 distribution: inet references: <4qf5lo$lhk@knot.queensu.ca> <4qq2sj$std@hole.sdsu.edu> <31D0D15E.2312@best.com> organization: Cabal Guinness/PNW QueerCard test administration newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help