Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!cerebus!ronc From: ronc@cerebus.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: emacs vs vi Message-ID: <811@cerebus.UUCP> Date: 13 Jul 88 20:21:13 GMT References: <16435@brl-adm.ARPA> <422@ns.ns.com> Reply-To: ronc@cerebus.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian) Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc. Lines: 35 In article <422@ns.ns.com> ddb@ns.ns.com (David Dyer-Bennet) writes: > Try this, composed on the spot: > >To invoke editor on a file: emacs>To save the file: ^X^S >To exit without saving: ^X^C >Cursor keys move you around. Typing inserts the characters typed. Delete >deletes the character to the left of the cursor. >To delete from current position to end of line: ^K >To go to beginning of line: ^A To end of line: ^E >Backspace invokes help. Putting on my novice user hat for a minute: I tried the above and when I tried to save the file the screen froze. I had to turn the terminal off and back on to restore control, and then I couldn't tell where I was on the screen. I tried repeatedly to save the file, and each time ran into the same problem. I finally had to exit without saving. (That worked.) What a dumb editor. I'm going back to vi. Taking off my novice user hat now. (Chee, that thing fits too tight!) David, I think you'd have to add some to your instructions. Ron -- Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.) {amdahl, pyramid, sun, unisoft, uunet}!cerebus!ronc Calling all Fujitsu Usenet sites! Contact cerebus!ronc or ronc@fai.com to establish uucp connection.