Re: Q: Use external editor for Gnus?

[Samuel Padgett <spadgett1@nc.rr.com>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Now, if they were addicted to vi keybindings, we could just tell them
> to use viper.  But with vim keybindings?

FWIW, Vim has a lot of stuff that Viper doesn't.  Many key bindings
are, of course, the same: the "basic" Vi key bindings.  All of the
"window" commands are different, and Vim has a lot of ex commands that
just aren't defined in Viper.  Also, commands that operate on regions
are different.  But I think most of this wouldn't matter when just
composing mail.

One piece of advice, though: if they use Viper at a lower "expert
level", make sure they choose one high enough that ":q", ":wq", "Z Z",
and friends don't quit the editor.  In Mutt/Vim and slrn/Vim, these
are the keys you typically use to send the message.  (Actually, I
don't think it's possible to make :q or :wq to send the message
without hacking Viper internals, but it's easy to make "Z Z" do it.
There's even an example for this in the Viper manual.)

HTH,
Sam