[TUHS] screen editors

[Mary Ann Horton]

vim has an option to undo the vi way. "set cpoptions=u". There is a full 
set of vi-compatible options if you want them. "set cp" turns on full vi 
compatiblity.

Funny, I see vim as the vi that comes with UNIX, and never learned the 
enhancements, but I just tried it out and I don't have the compatibility 
option set. I don't seem to have noticed. I guess I don't do the "undo 
toggle" all that often.

     Mary Ann

On 1/8/20 6:12 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
> make a new command, don't break the old one....  maybe offer a way to 
> map the new one over the old -- but don't make it the default.
> and my lawn was lush and green before the snow came ;-)
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:07 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com 
> <mailto:lm at mcvoy.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 09:04:46PM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
>     > On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 8:41 PM Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com
>     <mailto:bakul at bitblocks.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > > The first thing I do on a new machine is to install nvi. Very
>     grateful to
>     > > Keith Bostic for implementing it. I do use multiple windows
>     ??? only
>     > > horizontal splits but that is good enough for me as all my
>     terminal
>     > > windows are 80 chars wide. Not a vim hater but never saw the need.
>     >
>     > I pretty much do the same thing. I think what I hate about vim
>     is that it's
>     > almost, vi but not the same. My fingers screw up when I use it.  For
>     > instance, he 'fixed' undo.
>
>     Holy crap Clem, you need to embrace that.  His undo goes back forever.
>     And you can undo the undo and go forward forever.
>
>     Not liking that puts you in the "get off my lawn" old guy camp.  Which
>     is fine if that's who you want to be (sometimes I'm that guy).
>
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