'vi' is driving me crazy

[Tim Wunder]

On Monday 27 December 2004 2:27 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

You mean like "W" to write to a file, or "Q" to quit, or "I" to insert, or "A" 
to add to a line?

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