You used 2 sets of parens in the reply. Thus you are well on your way to use LIthP :-)<br><br>command mode in vi allows usefully toys like split my window to open another file which I can grab a few lines from using visual mode and then past into my other window. Or barring that, just use the second window so I can recall what the fsking string was I used for that *&%&^%ing id tag in the first included appendix file of the docbook file...<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 11:13 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> this why I use vi.....<br>
<br>
</div>I just don't use any of the "toys" in Emacs. I use an *awful* lot of<br>
the functionality, though.<br>
<br>
Honestly, I would be *truly* happy if there were an editor like Emacs<br>
that was always in input mode (command mode in vi is evil, especially on<br>
low bandwidth, high latency links where you can't keep track of what<br>
fscking mode you're in), but was extended using Python instead of LISP.<br>
Seriously.<br>
<br>
It seems that a variant of Emacs built around Python would be ideal for<br>
today's world, actually. Nobody sane learns LISP. Nearly everyone<br>
either knows or can write in Python if they know another language and<br>
with not terribly much effort---I'm not saying that Python is simple,<br>
but it is relatively easy because of the quick turn around between<br>
saving and running. I'm by no means a Python wizard, but I can get<br>
stuff done in it if I have to. LISP? Pppft. I guess I'm just not a<br>
real man... Anything more complex than a single-command one-liner is<br>
over my head in LISP. I have (mostly) written my .emacs by hand,<br>
myself, from what I have learned, but I don't write functions in it...<br>
<br>
--- Mike<br>
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