maybe *some* vi-isms embedded in OO.org???

[Gary Kline]

	Hi People,

	Considering how completely Outstanding OOo-2.x is, this may be
	a futile question.  When I first started programming circa 
	1978, Bill Joy saw the difficulties I was having typing since I
	had the use of only one hand.  He pointed me at vi, and I haven't 
	touched anything else since them.  My fingers know vi better than my 
	conscious mind.  So I rough draft things that will end up  in 
	OpenOffice in vi first, then edit and run what I've typed thru 
	a filter.  

	Since it appears tools like vim will not have OO's capabilities,
	does it make sense for OpenOffice to accept a "-v" switch for
	plain text entry, and have at least some of vi's (or nvi's)
	function?  I miss the simplicity of typing ESC followed by a "/"
	to do an instant search, for example.

	(I can cobble together a shell script to enable part of this; that
	is, before I enter word-processing mode.  It's just that the vi
	paradigm is the most reasonable from where I'm at.)

	cheers,

	gary kline

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