'vi' is driving me crazy

[Net Llama!]

On 12/27/2004 07:44 AM, A. Khattri wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 
> 
>>'vi' was written long before the 'standards'. 'vi' has a theory that
>>since all things you may want to do cannot be assigned to an obvious
>>key, then all keys are by design not related to what they do.
> 
> 
> That's not quite true - some keys ("Y" to "yank a line" and "D" to delete
> a line) are obviously related to the operation they perform.
> 
> 

Sorry, but i've never heard anyone use the expression 'yank a line' to 
perform the operation that hitting Y accomplishes.  D is about the only 
key that seems to have a logical correspondance with its operation, and 
i'm convinced that was a fluke, based on all the other utterly 
unintuitive vi operators.

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