Important features for editors

Joshua Landau joshua.landau.ws at gmail.com
Sat Jul 6 02:19:06 EDT 2013


On 6 July 2013 06:19, rusi <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, July 6, 2013 10:05:14 AM UTC+5:30, Joshua Landau wrote:
>> I never got why Vi doesn't support Ctrl-C by default -- it's not like
>> it's a used key-combination and it would have helped me so many times
>> when I was younger.
>
> Dunno what you are referring to.
> Out here C-c gets vi out of insert mode
> Second (onwards) and it prints
> Type :quit<Enter> to exit Vim

I know how to quit Vi *now*, but when I didn't it was a pain. It's
easy to get lost in a program that doesn't accept the *standard
quitting key*.

The rest of my post was a demonstration of what my Vi sessions used to
look like. Note that Vi != Vim; Vim at least tells you what to do.



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