'vi' is driving me crazy
Nathan Cole
cole_n_g
Tue Dec 28 10:14:45 PST 2004
At least on Windows, I have installed cream (cream.sourceforge.net),
which gives you the syntax of vim, with the Ctrl-C et. al. of other gui
apps.
It runs on top of vim with no other external programs.
I don't know if it will work on Linux, and I have it running without
gvim.
Nate
--- Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> A. Khattri wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> >
> >
> >>These would be a good start:
> >> <shift>-<movement> to select
> >> Ctrl-X to cut
> >> Ctrl-C to copy
> >> Ctrl-V to paste
> >
> >
> > Aah, by standard you mean Windoze standards...
>
> I believe these "standards" predate MS. And they are used by
> essentially
> every KDE and Gnome app and many others on every platform. There is
> no
> standard for such things, but these keystrokes are very much a
> defacto
> "standard". And your trying to talk them down doesn't change that.
>
> >> 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
> >
> >
> > The toolbar in gvim gives you all this.
>
> The toolbar in *every* gui editor gives you these. I'm not looking
> for a
> gui editor. We have those in spades. I'm looking for a *command line*
>
> editor. Course you'd have to read my messages to know that.
>
> Michael
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