From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [50.116.15.146]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0585A2164B for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2024 06:45:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9685427EF; Sat, 8 Jun 2024 14:45:05 +1000 (AEST) Received: from exhmta15.bpe.bigpond.com (exhmta15.bpe.bigpond.com [203.42.40.159]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 592494001D for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2024 14:44:55 +1000 (AEST) Received: from exhprdcmr10 by exhprdomr15 with esmtp (envelope-from ) id 1sFnwk-0003aW-14 for tuhs@tuhs.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:44:52 +1000 Received: from [110.141.193.233] (helo=aneurin.horsfall.org) by exhprdcmr10 with esmtp (envelope-from ) id 1sFnwi-0006j6-2Z for tuhs@tuhs.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:44:52 +1000 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 4584ioW3010709 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2024 14:44:50 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 4584in2F010706 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2024 14:44:50 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 14:44:48 +1000 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-tce-ares-id: e{9c0f113d-e7b4-4225-94f1-5fdbc7e7af26}1 X-tce-spam-action: no action X-tce-spam-score: 0.0 X-Cm-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=e4LNSrp/ c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=6663e1c4 a=tp40vz5QK/dVXQmd7GLw7w==:117 a=tp40vz5QK/dVXQmd7GLw7w==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=T1WGqf2p2xoA:10 a=dO0POgougUQesranah8A:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 X-Cm-Envelope: MS4xfDEDd3fTg2xZlJ7Sbd8v3DmTly944aK3vtWs9zV1jzN+HcXVYu+tjXBe739JrAuJ/yHN0POM4l4KT1Ly97LAIkw+ZWsXRolWW3nFpctr+xxPVxeKJELn 5teoYJKZwYyys9rxpCEMfU5gbnAjnfVOaW56kAZWgCz2YjQpCd8JlmCP Message-ID-Hash: P5FEPMDU2DA5FDWFC7OHIDW24CA7B2FQ X-Message-ID-Hash: P5FEPMDU2DA5FDWFC7OHIDW24CA7B2FQ X-MailFrom: dave@horsfall.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: diving into vi (nvi) - some observations from a slow learner List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Fri, 7 Jun 2024, Marc Rochkind wrote: > Other editors didn't work that way. I think emacs was non-modal, > although I never used it. (Could be wrong.) As the saying goes, EMACS is for people who can't remember what mode they're in :-) -- Dave