Re: [TUHS] screen editors

On Jan 8, 2020, at 7:55 PM, Mary Ann Horton <mah(a)mhorton.net> wrote: Are you referring to the special case where an undo of "p" (put) will sucessively re-insert the most recent things you've deleted? I just tried that in vim and it didn't seem to support the special case the way vi did. Mary Ann On 1/8/20 7:49 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: > It doesn’t work the same way. I just tried it (vim-8.0.something). > The way it is supposed to work is this: the first u undoes the last change. > Then you keep hitting . to keep undoing more. Then if you went back too far, > you hit u again, to undo the undo and further . will keep redoing. You can > go back and forth this way as many times as you wish. > >> On Jan 8, 2020, at 7:27 PM, Mary Ann Horton <mah(a)mhorton.net> wrote: >> >> vim has an option to undo the vi way. "set cpoptions=u". There is a full set of vi-compatible options if you want them. "set cp" turns on full vi compatiblity. >> Funny, I see vim as the vi that comes with UNIX, and never learned the enhancements, but I just tried it out and I don't have the compatibility option set. I don't seem to have noticed. I guess I don't do the "undo toggle" all that often. >> >> Mary Ann >> On 1/8/20 6:12 PM, Clem Cole 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).