On 22 Jul 2008, at 1:05 am, Robert G. Brown wrote:
I just never liked hopping into and out of text insertion mode, and
even
though nethack DOES use the vi cursor movement keys to move around
(this
was one of the original motivations for the game, IIRC) that doesn't
mean that I find them particularly natural.
That's them main reason I prefer vim to normal vi. You can navigate
around the document using the cursor keys *without* having to leave
insertion mode, which makes it a vast amount more useable than normal
vi, for my tastes.
I use vim for most editing tasks, but I do still use emacs for some
things, especially programming - its integration with the perl
debugger and with gdb is very useful, as is the make error-following
mode someone else mentioned.
IMO, one can be good, really good, at just one editor.
Oh, I don't know - I seem to be able to swap vi and emacs bindings in
and out of my fingers fairly quickly.
Tim
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