vim question...

[Glen Barber]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Gary Kline<kline at thought.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:24:29PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Gary Kline<kline at thought.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >        hi glenn,
>>
>> One 'n'. :)
>>
>
>        gotcha!  and see, this is a case of my occasionally typing > 1
>        key.  in vim, typing 'uu' can cause a truckload of code or whatever to
>        vanish.  ...
>

Agreed. :)

>> >
>        [ ... ]
>> > use mutt is that my fingers know vi.  unfortunately, there're too
>>
>> I use mutt because "it sucks less", quoting the author.
>
>
>        be nice if there were a quasi-gui version of mutt....
>
>

Interesting idea....

>>
>> >        many things in email now that require a gui reader.  be nice to
>> >        be able to read in evo and if i had to reply, use gvim.
>> >
>>
>> Hmm.... Well, for what it's worth, I didn't even know *vi* had an
>> 'undo' option.  I thought that was what 'q!' was for. :)
>>
>
>        that's almost funny; i have had to use "q!" all to often if i
>        forget and use vim.  it does indeed have some nice features.
>        but if you have to reply using a gui mailer and your typing isn't
>        flawlwss, it's keyboard <-> mouse.
>

I've found that 'q!' is now muscle-memory to me.  When I'm actually in
front of a GUI, the Gmail/Firefox spellcheck tends to find most of my
typographical mistakes, though unfortunately, not my logic mistakes.
:)

-- 
Glen Barber