'vi' is driving me crazy

[A. Khattri]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Tim Wunder wrote:

> BTW, many of the vi keystrokes work with 'less' when viewing a log file.

This is probably why I liked mutt ;-)


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chomp vi.

 1. To lose; specifically, to chew on something
   of which more was bitten off than one can.  Probably related to
   gnashing of teeth.  2. To bite the bag; See bagbiter.

A hand gesture commonly accompanies this.  To perform it, hold the
   four fingers together and place the thumb against their tips.  Now
   open and close your hand rapidly to suggest a biting action (much
   like what Pac-Man does in the classic video game, though this
   pantomime seems to predate that).  The gesture alone means `chomp
   chomp' (see "Verb Doubling" in the "Jargon Construc
   pointed at the object of complaint, and for real emphasis you can
   use both hands at once.  Doing this to a person is equivalent to
   saying "You chomper!"  If you point the gesture at yourself, it
   is a humble but humorous admission of some failure.  You might do
   this if someone told you that a program you had written had failed
   in some surprising way and you felt dumb for not having anticipated
   it.