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From: Jeremy Jackins <jeremyjackins@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme: moving the cursor to tag line
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 18:10:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOr72mjBhx=S-dSE-Rwptm-hkfVcw8p74Asw_6Oor2DqkdOFdg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJUT6o7ZWL436ML3UMREszKiGaROMFStY4NinkGo1GZFCb3pWA@mail.gmail.com>

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Opposing data point: the current behavior of esc in Acme is one of the
things I miss the most when using other editors.

On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 at 07:11 dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com> wrote:

> i've realized i never use the Esc key in Acme.
> meanwhile, i often go through cycle of:
> - type chunk of code
> - grab mouse, focus tag line
> - type a command
> - grab mouse, execute the command
>
> would it make more sense to have Esc function as the "position cursor
> & focus at the end of tag line of the current window" shortcut? bit of
> a vi-like behavior; semi mode-switch, from input to execution *area*.
>
> have anything like that been tried in Acme?
>
> --
> dx
>
>

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      reply	other threads:[~2018-04-19 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-19 14:07 dexen deVries
2018-04-19 18:10 ` Jeremy Jackins [this message]

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