On 07/10/2017 14:19, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 11:06 pm, bartc wrote:
Ctrl-K to enter "operate on selected text" mode;
Y to Delete
Ctrl-K to enter "operate on selected text" mode;
R to Read from a file (at last an actual mnemonic command!)
enter a file name
That's five steps.
Are we counting steps or keystrokes?
And now you have two "temporary" files, file and file2, which need to be
deleted. Two more steps that you conveniently don't count.
Actually I keep a set of 9 scratch file names just for such purposes. So
overwriting and deleting don't matter. (Apparently the names are
offensive to some so I won't mention them, but they're easy to type.)
And you think that memorising these non-standard keyboard shortcuts Ctrl-KW
Ctrl-KY Ctrl-KR
I believe these used to be WordStar commands, if anyone can remember that.
is better than memorising Ctrl-D which works across thousands
of applications? Good for you. You probably would love Emacs, except other
people use it, and therefore you will hate it.
[...]
However, how hard would it for the editor to do its own sorting?
Yes, it is a mystery to me why so few editors include a "sort lines" function.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic here or not, so I don't know if
you mean few editors have 'sort' or most of them do. Neither do I get
the point you're making.
But it's a little ironic that it took less time to add such a feature
than I spent writing about it in a post!
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