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Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 05:38:03PM +0000, Matthew Miller wrote:
And the sixth dumbest thing is how vi makes a big deal about "all the most
import keys are right on the home row", and then a) foolishly has your right
hand shifted one key to the left of where it should be and b) makes you hit
ESC a lot, even though that tends to be way the hell up in the corner.

not to start a holy war, but vi has all sorts of weirdnesses in it... like,
oh, modes? :)

*grin, duck and run*

--
Dan Boger / dan@peeron.com / www.peeron.com / ICQ: 1130750
2638:  Unknown (LEGO/DUPLO), '87, 1? figs



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(...) Right. Any editor that makes you be in a special mode to *edit* is fundamentally flawed. (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) And the sixth dumbest thing is how vi makes a big deal about "all the most import keys are right on the home row", and then a) foolishly has your right hand shifted one key to the left of where it should be and b) makes you hit ESC a lot, even (...) (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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