vim question...

Gary Kline kline at thought.org
Mon Jun 15 03:51:07 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:24:29PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Gary Kline<kline at thought.org> wrote:
> >
> >        hi glenn,
> 
> One 'n'. :)
> 

	gotcha!  and see, this is a case of my occasionally typing > 1
	key.  in vim, typing 'uu' can cause a truckload of code or whatever to
	vanish.  ...

> >
	[ ... ]
> > use mutt is that my fingers know vi.  unfortunately, there're too
> 
> I use mutt because "it sucks less", quoting the author.


	be nice if there were a quasi-gui version of mutt.... 


> 
> >        many things in email now that require a gui reader.  be nice to
> >        be able to read in evo and if i had to reply, use gvim.
> >
> 
> Hmm.... Well, for what it's worth, I didn't even know *vi* had an
> 'undo' option.  I thought that was what 'q!' was for. :)
> 

	that's almost funny; i have had to use "q!" all to often if i
	forget and use vim.  it does indeed have some nice features.
	but if you have to reply using a gui mailer and your typing isn't
	flawlwss, it's keyboard <-> mouse.  

> I'm as interested as you are now.
> 

	
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> Glen Barber

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