Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!husc6!bu-cs!buengc!bph From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: vi vs. emacs Message-ID: <678@buengc.BU.EDU> Date: 1 Aug 88 23:28:36 GMT References: <16697@brl-adm.ARPA> <517@uva.UUCP> <661@buengc.BU.EDU> <12767@mimsy.UUCP> Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) Followup-To: comp.editors Organization: Boston Univ. Col. of Eng. Lines: 37 In article <12767@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: >In article <661@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) writes: >>I have a copy of the Ultrix-32 quick reference guide at my side always, > >Does it document the `_' command? (_ acts like 0, but is line oriented >rather than character oriented.) Uh-oh, I got Torek on my case now... I just looked for it. '_' is identical to '^', and the guide lists the latter. I don't know how you can say it's line-oriented, though. (Firstly, one doesn't expect such esoterica in this reference, it's the sort of place where system calls are listed only by arguments and declaration...) I tried it out, and it just goes to the first nonblank _character_ in a line (whereas '0' can send the cursor to stand on a tab, '_' or '^' can't.) Sounds like they're all character-oriented to me... The only thing that bugs me, and only rarely, is that vi doesn't unnerstand that the first word in a line is right next to the last word in the previous line: very annoying if you accidentally hit the , or bung the last letter of a word, reflexively hit a space, and the autowrap puts the in for you. BTW, I just noticed (because I never looked before) that the 'ZZ' command is not in there. Makes me wonder, but not enough to go abuse my paranoia with Emacs. What do you do when you're eating a burger and finishing a report? I can do anything quickly with one hand (okay, there's a straightline fer ya...). Anybody know the hardest command in Emacs to accomplish with one hand? I'm not familiar enough with it to know. I'll go look for the hardest in vi, and meet ya at the summit. --Blair "No-help is better than emacs `help`" P.S. ...I think in vi the hardest is ... nope! I tried it: you can do 0 and it's the same."