Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Wanted: REAL vi mode for GNU emacs
Message-ID: <6158@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 2 Aug 88 03:35:35 GMT
References: <380002@hpausla.HP.COM> <380006@hpausla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <380006@hpausla.HP.COM> cjh@hpausla.HP.COM (Clifford Heath) writes:
>Ok, ok, stop telling me, I already knew about vi mode and vip mode.
>vip seems the more complete, but lots of things simply work differently,
>which loses the advantage of having an emulation.

What about ESC-ESC?  That one is the most annoying for me..  I never
have any trouble with vi "modes" because I just hit the ESC key
unless I am absolutely sure that I am already in command mode.  In fact,
you could think of each vi command being prefixed with ESC and vi would
no longer have modes...
Anyway, I would guess that many vi users fall into this habit since the
worst that vi will do if you hit an extra ESC is beep at you.  Unfortunately
this is not true for vip.

 Les Mikesell