[NBLUG/talk] Re: KDE vs. Gnome

[S. Saunders]

On Wed, March 23, 2005 17:47, A'fish'ionado said:
> Here's my argument for VI over Emacs: Emacs' key bindings keep
> confusing me--just as I get used to ctrl+x ctrl+s to save, I wind up
> hitting that combination when I return to some "modern" editor (MS
> Notepad, JEdit, KEdit, what have you). VI, on the other hand, has key
> combinations that are so different that I don't confuse them (escape
> colon w q).

<g>

Really?  Haven't you ever seen something online, e.g. in a newsgroup
etc, with an anomalous ":w" (terminating a line, which then goes on
with more text), or ":wq" (often at the end of a file).

I have.  Several times.  IIRC, I've only let that escape to the wild
once however.  But any time the lights flicker and I'm composing at
a keyboard, I reflexively bang out :w
in about 1/2 second... (that's colon double-ewe return).


- Steve S.