In article <roy-97fe62.19585126052...@news.panix.com>, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: >In article <mailman.764.1243352981.8015.python-l...@python.org>, > Bar Shirtcliff <barshirtcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I can't say a thing about other editors, except that when some shell >> script perversely dumped me into vi a month ago, I felt as horrified >> as if some actually living bugs had crawled out of my own reflection >> on the computer screen and fallen, clicking and scraping, onto the >> keyboard. That's a personal reaction - totally irrelevant, of course. > ><esc> : q ! <return>
Make that <DEL><DEL><DEL> <esc> : q ! <return> >All the vi you ever need to know :-) Now some kind soul give a similar sequence for emacs. > >The real problem is when you get dumped into some editor other than you one >you expected and don't realize it for a while. It's really amazing how >much damage you can do to a file by typing (for example) emacs commands at >vi. Especially if you accidentally stumble upon the sequence for "save >file". Exactly. An indication of how one can see one is in emacs is also appreciated. [Especially insidious is helpful help that lands you in emacs-ing help file for powerful searching (not!).] Groetjes Albert -- -- Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- like all pyramid schemes -- ultimately falters. alb...@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
