Re: [Sheflug] vi, emacs, sharp sticks

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Will" == Will Newton <will [at] misconception.org.uk> writes:

    Will> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
    >> For the information of Emacs fans who may not have seen these
    >> things yet; vi users won't be impressed.  :-)

    Will> I'm a vi using emacs user. :) The only thing that get's me
    Will> about emacs is the fact that the keys have no discernable
    Will> rhyme or reason to them making them a lot harder to remember
    Will> than vi's. (e.g. using C-w for paste)

C-w is kill-region, usually, and that's supposed to be mnemonic from
command-line editing.  Paste is C-y, for "yank", and I believe that's
the same in vi.  C-d is delete-char-forward, same "delete" as vi's
delete line.  In general, Emacs keybindings are supposed to be
mnemonic by initial.  C-z is suspend, as in the shell.  The X key is
reserved from eXtended commands, C-x being a prefix for multiple
keystrokes, and M-x allowing you to specify commands by name.  Etc,
etc.

Worked well for me, YMMV.

Then, the more modifiers, the bigger the unit.  Ctrl-Alt-Hyper-Meta-d
is an abbreviation for `rm -rf /' ;-).

What the hell are CUA (MSFT) keybindings supposed to be mnemonic for?
Alt-V = paste?  Alt-X = cut?


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