RE: Gotta Learn Vi . . . . . . (was Re: [tlug] [Newbie] Becoming'root'in Kubuntu: Use sudo)

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, burlingk@example.com wrote:

> > From: steven smith
> >
> > The original vi only had the few commands below It worked
> > over a 300 baud modem.
>
> This fact actually makes the mode thing make sense.
> Correcting a mistake over a 300 baud modem would have
> to be scarry....

I don't think this is exactly the point. First of all, the original
vi was developed on and for 9600 bps text terminals, and second, even
modern vi works on a 300 bps link. (nvi still has support for shortening
the screen size based on the terminal speed, as far as I know.)

>  With mode editing at least, you Don't have to worry (as much) about
> accidently entering the wrong text while you are moving from one line
> to another.

The great advantage of vi's modal editing is that, unless you switch in
and out of insert mode far more than you should be doing, you get your
movement and change commands in fewer keystrokes, and with less motion
away from the home row, than with non-modal editors, which force you in
to using alt and meta keys and the like for many movement and editing
commands.

cjs
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