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From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] screen editors
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 21:12:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2PxAbWtTFpMJJ-k8cKXasSw9hDk-fb2XVdRoT2xku8wSg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200109020720.GG16808@mcvoy.com>

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make a new command, don't break the old one....  maybe offer a way to map
the new one over the old -- but don't make it the default.
and my lawn was lush and green before the snow came ;-)



On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:07 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 09:04:46PM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 8:41 PM Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The first thing I do on a new machine is to install nvi. Very grateful
> to
> > > Keith Bostic for implementing it. I do use multiple windows ??? only
> > > horizontal splits but that is good enough for me as all my terminal
> > > windows are 80 chars wide. Not a vim hater but never saw the need.
> >
> > I pretty much do the same thing. I think what I hate about vim is that
> it's
> > almost, vi but not the same. My fingers screw up when I use it.  For
> > instance, he 'fixed' undo.
>
> Holy crap Clem, you need to embrace that.  His undo goes back forever.
> And you can undo the undo and go forward forever.
>
> Not liking that puts you in the "get off my lawn" old guy camp.  Which
> is fine if that's who you want to be (sometimes I'm that guy).
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-09  2:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 117+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-08  9:46 Rudi Blom
2020-01-08 14:15 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-08 15:15   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-08 15:42     ` Steve Mynott
     [not found]     ` <68b3d6df-94f6-625d-39bf-6149b4c177c9@andrewnesbit.org>
2020-01-08 20:56       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-08 23:21   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-09  0:08     ` Warner Losh
2020-01-09  1:28       ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-09  1:40         ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-09  2:04           ` Clem Cole
2020-01-09  2:07             ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-09  2:12               ` Clem Cole [this message]
2020-01-09  2:59                 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-09  3:08                   ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-09  3:43                     ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-09  3:27                 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-01-09  3:34                   ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-09  3:49                   ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-09  3:55                     ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-01-09  5:27                       ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-09  4:23                 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-09 15:54                   ` Clem Cole
2020-01-09 17:21                     ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-09 17:30                       ` Warner Losh
2020-01-09 17:45                         ` [TUHS] screen editors and beyond Jon Steinhart
2020-01-09 17:56                       ` [TUHS] screen editors Bakul Shah
2020-01-18  2:11                         ` Michael Parson
2020-01-09 18:53                       ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-09 19:01                         ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-09 19:02                     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-09 19:19                       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-09 20:20                     ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-01-18  2:06                   ` Michael Parson
2020-01-18  3:13                     ` Clem Cole
2020-01-18  3:44                       ` Kurt H Maier
2020-01-18 15:37                       ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-18 22:11                         ` markus schnalke
2020-01-09  2:14         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-09  2:48           ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-09  9:05       ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-08 15:11 ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-01-08 15:37   ` Henry Bent
2020-01-18 14:22   ` Michael Parson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-01-26 20:32 [TUHS] Screen editors Paul Ruizendaal
2020-01-26 23:14 ` Thomas Paulsen
     [not found] <20200120155946.169b39e0.ref@sagittariusa.cnb.csic.es>
2020-01-20 14:59 ` Jose R. Valverde via TUHS
2020-01-20 16:07   ` Toby Thain
2020-01-20 16:20     ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-31 18:21       ` Jose R. Valverde via TUHS
2020-01-29 22:24     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-29 22:33       ` Larry McVoy
2020-02-07 23:05         ` Dave Horsfall
2020-02-07 23:54           ` Richard Salz
2020-02-08  3:11             ` Dave Horsfall
2020-02-08  3:38               ` Ronald Natalie
2020-02-08  0:05           ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-29 23:00       ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-26 18:28   ` arnold
2020-01-26 18:33     ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-26 18:36       ` arnold
2020-01-26 18:40       ` arnold
2020-01-26 19:11         ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-26 19:40     ` Jon Forrest
2020-01-26 20:08     ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-09 21:46 [TUHS] screen editors Norman Wilson
2020-01-09 22:10 ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-08  7:39 Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-08 15:58 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-01-08 23:41   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-09  1:43     ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-01-08 21:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-08 22:01   ` Clem Cole
2020-01-17 23:38     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-18  0:07       ` Ryan Casalino
2020-01-18 23:02       ` greg travis
2020-01-10  8:13   ` markus schnalke
2020-01-10  8:17     ` U'll Be King of the Stars
2020-01-11 19:58       ` markus schnalke
2020-01-11 20:54         ` Derek Fawcus
2020-01-11 21:27         ` Henry Bent
2020-02-04  8:40         ` Sijmen J. Mulder
2020-01-10 15:31     ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-01-10 16:04       ` Clem Cole
2020-01-10 17:10       ` Dan Cross
2020-01-10 17:18         ` Steve Nickolas
2020-01-18  1:55           ` Michael Parson
2020-01-10 15:58     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-07 19:57 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-07 20:17 ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-07 20:47 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-07  2:31 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-07  2:37 ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-07  2:38 ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-07 16:30   ` arnold
2020-01-07 16:38     ` Richard Salz
2020-01-07 18:32     ` Dan Cross
2020-01-07 19:14     ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-09  5:01       ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-01-10  8:16         ` ricercar
2020-01-08  0:10     ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-17 22:06       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-08 18:30     ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-01-08 21:41       ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-09  8:30       ` arnold
2020-01-07  6:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-07  8:24   ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-07 20:44     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-08 15:29   ` Steve Mynott
2020-01-08 23:31     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-07  9:43 ` ullbeking
2020-01-07 14:53   ` Dan Cross
2020-01-07 19:35   ` Rodrigo G. López
2020-01-08  5:13     ` Mark van Atten
2020-01-07 15:03 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-07 15:50 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-07 20:45   ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-07 21:20     ` Derek Fawcus

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