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Article #7414Re: Porting UNIX Applications to the Mac: mouse-based/vi
From: Matt Dillon
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1986 19:11
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1986 19:11
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>>> It's true that you can go directly to a specific line number but you can't >>> easily go up five lines and over twenty characters. > >I don't know about vi, but there are several ways it could be done in EMACS. >And in Hemlock, an EMACS-family editor built into Spice Lisp, one can point >and click using the puck or type keyboard commands as one prefers. With vi, you can precede any movement with a number (don't even have to switch modes!). Thus 5k20l ... Comparing this to a mouse based editor, it is obvious the mouse wins. The mouse generally wins for any 'cursor movement' related things. However, once get down to more more complex operations, mouse based editors are useless. -Matt
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!cbosgd!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Porting UNIX Applications to the Mac: mouse-based/vi Message-ID: <8609291911.AA07846@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 15:11:33 EDT Article-I.D.: cory.8609291911.AA07846 Posted: Mon Sep 29 15:11:33 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 21:00:50 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 14