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
> > the same in vi.  C-d is delete-char-forward, same "delete" as vi's
> 
> No it isn't, it's the opposite. yy copies, dd cuts, p pastes. I can deal
> with that better than C-w cuts C-y pastes and their doesn't appear to be
> a key for plain old copy (I know, cut-then-paste, but that's two keys).

M-w copies, C-w cuts, C-y pastes. Tada!

> Strangely they happen to be close to the amiga key bindings which were
> (AFAICR) A-C for copy, A-V for paste and A-X for cut. Don't know why.
> A-X makes sense as in X = kill. Maybe you could say A-K would be better,
> but X is not too bad. C for copy, now there's an idea. V? Not sure.

It's next to x and c, so the hard of thinking don't have to look to far
;-)

On the whole, as I have said before, the best software for any purpose is
that which enables you do do it most quickly, most accurately and most
comfortably. For example, for my last assignment, I made a Latex document
in emacs, using Octave and gnuplot to create the graphs and calculate the
answers, (using an octave script I made in emacs), converted it to a
single postscript document using dvips and the /usepackage{graphicx} latex
bit, and dumped the whole lot to my postscript compatible printer for nice
output. The whole thing took little under 2 hours.

In comparison, using SO and Word, and even Abiword, I spent so much time
mucking about with the formatting trying to make it look HALF as good as
the latex equivelant I could have done it again twice over!

So, for me at least, a text editor, a math package and a printer are all I
need. I don't even need X, there are svgalib previewers for gnuplot, dvi's
and ps.

Just my two penneth,

Craig

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