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Re: is it really worth the time to go from vi to emacs?

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From: James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #407...
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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From: kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de (James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763)
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Date: 1996/06/28
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