'vi' is driving me crazy

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Oh, wait.  I found "Ctrl-Insert, Shift-Insert and Shift-Delete" much
more intuitive than "Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, and Ctrl-X".
So how do you define intuitive?  I had to give up the former in order to
use Linux.  You want to talk standards?  Try WordStar!  You'll find that
Vi has some very WordStar-like control sequences.

Michael Hipp wrote:
| Kurt Wall wrote:
|
|> Whose "standard" keystrokes do you want to follow? MS's? Perhaps IBM's?
|> Maybe those from WordStar? Emacs'? This insistence on adhering to
|> keystroke or command standards is quaint, but based on a false premise.
|
|
| Standardization is never quaint.
|
| I'm referring to the standards used by Gnome and KDE. Oh, they're also
| used by MS.
|
| These would be a good start:
|   <shift>-<movement> to select
|   Ctrl-X to cut
|   Ctrl-C to copy
|   Ctrl-V to paste
|   Some single key to Save
|   Some single key to bring up Search or Search/Replace
|   Del and Backspace don't change function according to mode
|
| Michael
|
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