On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:41 PM, erik quanstrom<quans...@coraid.com> wrote: >> Umm, Plan 9 relevance: I don't have to fingertwist in Plan 9! Actually >> I can't remember using Esc anywhere, > > esc selects typing since last non-typing > repositing of the tick or deletes selected > text in acme. esc toggles hold mode in > a 9term window. > > - erik > >
*That's* where I'd been using it, I thought for some reason I was oversimplifying when I said I hadn't used Esc. Didn't know about the first trick, but I do use hold mode... usually after I have typed a few lines and want to edit them. John -- "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba
