Re: [TUHS] screen editors

Early in vim???s life I had emailed Moolenaar asking him if he would be willing to add an option for nvi like behavior for undo/redo. He wasn???t interested so I lost interest. nvi???s u & . behavior is not only quite clever but also much more intuitive and you don???t have to press the ctl key! > On Jan 8, 2020, at 6:12 PM, Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote: > > make a new command, don't break the old one.... maybe offer a way to map the new one over the old -- but don't make it the default. > and my lawn was lush and green before the snow came ;-) > > > > On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:07 PM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 09:04:46PM -0500, Clem Cole wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 8:41 PM Bakul Shah <bakul(a)bitblocks.com> wrote: > > > > > The first thing I do on a new machine is to install nvi. Very grateful to > > > Keith Bostic for implementing it. I do use multiple windows ??? only > > > horizontal splits but that is good enough for me as all my terminal > > > windows are 80 chars wide. Not a vim hater but never saw the need. > > > > I pretty much do the same thing. I think what I hate about vim is that it's > > almost, vi but not the same. My fingers screw up when I use it. For > > instance, he 'fixed' undo. > > Holy crap Clem, you need to embrace that. His undo goes back forever. > And you can undo the undo and go forward forever. > > Not liking that puts you in the "get off my lawn" old guy camp. Which > is fine if that's who you want to be (sometimes I'm that guy).