Another Chapter in the vi vs. emacs War

[Rick Bowers]

At Monday 2/4/2008 08:54 AM, you wrote:
>On Feb 4, 2008 1:46 AM,  <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> > http://xkcd.com/378/
> >
> > The nice thing about Linux is that I can (and do) use both.
>
>I haven't yet grown that required third hand to properly use emacs
>(eight-hundred megs and constantly swapping), so I stick to vi
>(nvi|vim).
>
>But I do like the chaos editor (aka butterfly).
>
>Ciao,
>
>David A. Bandel
>--

I've used both VI and EMACS for many years. I mostly use VI these 
days, but still haven't figured out if/how VI does macros. In EMACS, 
it's Meta-( <a bunch of commands> Meta-)
Then I can Meta-X or ESC<numeric value>Meta-X (or is that 
Meta-<numeric value>) ?

Anyone know the VI equivalent?

~Rick

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