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

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From: changj Jianlin Chang
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:00
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Sorry, I may be wrong. Say in latex mode, you type \begin... then use
some key binding to get \end..., but you are in vi mode, will those
key bindings work well?


Larry Riedel (larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu) wrote:
: Jianlin Chang (changj@jeff-lab@queensu.ca) wrote:
: > Larry Riedel (larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu) wrote:
: > > Viper is not just a compromise or a crutch.  There is no need to "move
: > > to emacs mode" to get all the capabilities provided by emacs.
: >
: > What do you mean by this? In viper and emacs mode, commmands are
: > interpreted differently, for example, you won't get c mode and Latex
: > mode with viper.

: This is news to me since I use cc-mode with Viper and it works great.


: >                  So some functionality of emacs won't work unless you
: > switch from vi mode to emacs mode.

: If there is a conflict between the key binding of a command in
: vip-mode and some other mode, it is easy to tell Viper to pass
: that one key sequence through to the other mode.  There are lots
: of modes with conflicting key bindings, irrespective of Viper.


: Larry

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From: changj@jeff-lab@queensu.ca (Jianlin Chang)
Subject: Re: is it really worth the time to go from vi to emacs?
Date: 1996/06/28
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