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From: leech@cezanne.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Some questions about vi and emacs
Keywords: vi, vip, Freemacs, mint
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Date: 14 Nov 90 03:04:26 GMT
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In article <986@latexo.cs.utexas.edu>, mayoff@cs.utexas.edu (Robert
Mayoff) writes:
|>To get it out of the way, the arrow keys are by no means faster than
|>either the normal emacs movement keys nor the vi movement keys for two
|>reasons: they transmit multiple characters (on most terminals) all of
|>which must be parsed, and you must take your hand away from the home
|>keys to use them (a serious slowdown for my 70 WPM speed).  So, let's
|>ignore them.

	I generally ignore emacs vs. vi debates, since I use neither of them,
but I wonder what type of machine you're using that the overhead of reading
and interpreting the arrow keys is at all noticeable. Perhaps an Apple II with
editors written in BASIC? :-)