[TUHS] screen editors

[Mary Ann Horton]

Are you referring to the special case where an undo of "p" (put) will 
sucessively re-insert the most recent things you've deleted?

I just tried that in vim and it didn't seem to support the special case 
the way vi did.

     Mary Ann

On 1/8/20 7:49 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:
> It doesn’t work the same way. I just tried it (vim-8.0.something).
> The way it is supposed to work is this:  the first u undoes the last change.
> Then you keep hitting . to keep undoing more. Then if you went back too far,
> you hit u again, to undo the undo and further . will keep redoing. You can
> go back and forth this way as many times as you wish.
>
>> On Jan 8, 2020, at 7:27 PM, Mary Ann Horton <mah at mhorton.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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> 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> 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).