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Re: Eleven years of using vim

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On 11/9/2014 11:19 AM, gamo wrote:
> El 06/11/14 a las 10:24, Stan Brown escribió:
>> On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 02:51:24 +0100, gamo wrote:
>>>
>>> El 06/11/14 a las 02:34, Stan Brown escribió:
>>>> Good lord -- for me I think it's a quarter of a century. I started
>>>> using it in the late 1980s because I could use the same editor and
>>>> same preference file in VAX/VMS, Windows, and *NIX.
>>>
>>> And don't you like the EDT?
>>
>> No me gustó.
>
> That's was my first impression, but trusty people
> told that was a good editor and I give it a second
> chance. I had used good DOS editors as 'qedit'

I used EDT back when on DEC minis.  It was certainly an improvement over 
SOS, and video TECO didn't run in the environment I was in.

> But up to now I didn't find nothing more precise
> that using numkeypad as a function launcher.
> So, for a time now, I'm with JED in EDT mode.
> By obscure forces of X, that actually doesn't
> work in gnome-terminal but menus are OK.

The problem with EDT was that it was intrinsically bound with the VT100 
terminal keyboard. Attempts to emulate EDT on other platforms have to 
map EDT to their keyboards as best they can.  You run something like 
that because you used EDT back when and want to retain the familiar 
environment.  It's the same sort of thing that has people using WordStar 
or an editor than can be configured to use WS key assignments.  (I 
learned WordStar back in the day when WS was the second editor you 
learned, because the one you preferred might not be on the PC you had to 
use but WS probably was.  I later had Gnu Emacs set to use WS command 
assignments to avoid retraining my fingers.)
______
Dennis

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Eleven years of using vim RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-11-02 20:24 +0000
  Re: Eleven years of using vim Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> - 2014-11-03 13:37 +0100
    Re: Eleven years of using vim Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-03 14:47 +0200
  Re: Eleven years of using vim Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2014-11-03 12:46 +0000
    Re: Eleven years of using vim gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-11-03 13:14 +0000
    Re: Eleven years of using vim Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-11-03 13:20 +0000
    Re: Eleven years of using vim Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2014-11-04 23:51 +0000
      Re: Eleven years of using vim Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2014-11-05 20:34 -0500
        Re: Eleven years of using vim gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2014-11-06 02:51 +0100
          Re: Eleven years of using vim Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2014-11-06 04:24 -0500
            Re: Eleven years of using vim gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2014-11-09 17:19 +0100
              Re: Eleven years of using vim DMcCunney <dennis.mccunney@gmail.com> - 2014-11-09 13:47 -0500
                Re: Eleven years of using vim gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2014-11-10 14:26 +0100
        Re: Eleven years of using vim Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-11-05 23:58 -0500
          Re: Eleven years of using vim Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2014-11-06 07:27 +0000
            Re: Eleven years of using vim Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-06 09:43 +0200
              Re: Eleven years of using vim Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2014-11-06 08:50 +0000
        Re: Eleven years of using vim Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2014-11-06 06:40 +0000
    Re: Eleven years of using vim Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2014-11-05 20:32 -0500
  Re: Eleven years of using vim Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-11-05 10:31 +0200
    Re: Eleven years of using vim Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-05 11:07 +0200
    Re: Eleven years of using vim Forsythe <none@example.com> - 2014-11-08 20:42 +0000

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