In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> After two decades of putting up with vi just to ensure >> compatibility with every proprietary *nix system I might come >> across, let me just say ... >> >> USE EMACS! > > Nah. Use vim.
Every other text editor I have ever used understands that the current position in a file is _between_ two characters (or before the first character, or after the last character), not _on_ a character. But not vi and its ilk. Try the following in vi/vim: Move to some point in the middle of a line. Press "i" to get into insert mode. Press escape to get out again. You'll end up one position to the left of where you were before. Press "i", and then escape again--you've moved another position left. Why is it incapable of keeping track of such a simple thing as your current position in the file? Why does it need two different insert commands, "i" versus "a"? Because one of them can't insert at the end of a line, and the other can't insert at the beginning. And why have command-versus-insert mode at all? No other text editor still surviving uses such an antiquated concept. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
