[oclug] Vim Rulez (was Programming Wars - Final Results)

[Vic Gedris]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Jon Earle wrote:

> RE: editor tests. I just had to do this a few minutes ago so it's
> fresh.  While editing a line, try to join it to the previous and
> resume editing: <esc><up>:j<cr>i vs <home><bksp>.  6 keystrokes in vi*
> vs two in "regular" editors.

OK...I have to bite on this one.  :-)

"Regular editor":  <home><bksp> a       (2 keystrokes)
vi:                <esc><up><shift-j>i  (5 keystrokes)
vim:               <home>bksp>          (2 keystrokes! ;-)

But as Mike already pointed out, vi/vim is amazing when editing with
multiple lines.

-Vic

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