'vi' is driving me crazy

[Net Llama!]

On 12/27/2004 12:04 PM, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 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?

I save files.  writing seems like something very different than saving. 
  Q for quitting seems like another rare intuituve exception.  I and A 
are only intuitive in the vi world.


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