Re: [Sheflug] vi, emacs, sharp sticks

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

> 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

In vi, yanking is copying to a temporary buffer. In Emacs, its bringing it
back!

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

At least C-c for copy is reasonably sensible. And there's always
Shift-delete and Shift-insert for copy and paste.

I find vi to have the most sensible key bindings for general use. I used
to have (until yesterday *sob*) Minix on a 386 laptop w/ 2Mb ram and an
awful keyboard with nasty little cursor keys. I could do all kinds of
wonderful things using only elvis, a few choice settings and the hjkl
keys for navigating! Marvellous.

Craig

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