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From: James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #407...
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:00
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In article <4qu9g4$5g1@knot.queensu.ca> changj@jeff-lab@queensu.ca
(Jianlin Chang) writes:
|> By starting with viper mode, you can do things quickly, and whenever
|> you need extra functionality of emacs, you switch to emacs mode. After
|> you get familiar with emacs commands, you can evevtually abondon viper
|> mode? Isn't this true?
This is one way of considering the question. In fact, the Viper key
bindings are quite efficient, whereas the classical emacs keybindings
are fairly awkward. So although I know classical emacs fairly well, I
still prefer to do most of my editing in Viper mode.
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