Re: [9fans] command repetition in sam/acme

["J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:13 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> This discussion strikes me as coming from a different galaxy. It seems
> to me that Acme and Sam clearly don't match the task at hand. We're
> trying to use a screwdriver when we need a jackhammer .
>
> I don't see the point in complaining about file formats. The
> scientists in this case don't much care what we think. They're not
> going to rewrite their formats so someone can use Acme.
>
> Here's my suggestion:
>
> vi

I seem to remember an interview with Rob Pike where he said that the
reason he hated vi and emacs was that they didn't support mouse
placement, and other than that, they were fine. I wonder if he would
find Vim usable these days, given that you can mouse around in it
without sacrificing the really powerful command syntax that Rudolf
seems to be missing here.

It's definitely efficient to be able to just "point and say 'here'",
which I think is the wording Rob used, but it's also useful to be able
to just say "go down 5 lines and then forward 5 words", which vi
excels at. I really like Acme, but (and maybe it's just me being a
newbie) I find myself really missing some of the vi
movement/delete/yank syntax.



Just my $.02 USD, which, due to inflation, is pretty worthless these days.

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> ron
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