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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? 


David Kastrup (dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de) wrote:
: In article <4qs8kg$15t@knot.queensu.ca> changj@jeff-lab@queensu.ca (Jianlin Chang) writes:

:    Another question is: is it better to start with emacs vip or viper
:    mode and gradually move to emacs mode or to start with emacs
:    completely? Thanks a lot.

: First thing to note is that viper is a standard package: you can rely
: on it being present on any emacs of reasonable date (the latter you
: cannot necessarily rely on, however). So you need not fear that a
: standard emacs on another platform will not offer this functionality
: to you as well.

: Having that said, however, I'd recommend taking the pains and learning
: the standard bindings. Print out the emacs help sheet, it will be an
: invaluable aid in the first week or so. Emacs has a lot more of
: functionality than vi, and has his own philosophy behind
: keybindings. You will learn this better and more consistent if you use
: the standard keybindings, and will typically need shorter key
: sequences to get around.

: If you intend in not using any emacs functionality besides that vi
: offers you, you might not need to use emacs at all.

: An additional boon, of course, is that you will get better along with
: any older versions of emacs thrust at you.

: In my opinion, viper mode and wordstar mode and so are more or less
: there because some-one saw a challenge in doing them, and did them. Of
: course, they are functional (to larger or lesser degree), but are not
: "the real thing", and will obstruct keybindings which are put to
: better use when using plain emacs.

: I consider them demonstrators, like M-x hanoi, of what you can do with
: emacs if you really try.
: -- 
: David Kastrup     Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
: Email: dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de  Telephon: +49-234-700-5559

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