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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: vi-like
Summary: vi needs on-line doc
Message-ID: <6961@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 10 Mar 89 07:59:28 GMT
References: <12406@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <958@starfish.Convergent.COM> <2386@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Reply-To: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <2386@iscuva.ISCS.COM> carlp@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Carl Paukstis) writes:

@ I still
@ have to look things up for EMACS if I want to do anything complicated.  And
@ if I'm using somebody else's key bindings, I'm totally screwed.  Why is the
@ sequence 'dw' to delete a word "unfriendly"?

One huge adavantage of emacs is that it's documented online. The huge
disadvantage of vi is that it isn't.
-- 
>`Take that, Eliot!' -- 20th century composer on a waltz in D major
                                               -- Noam Elkies