Wen Weng <WenWeng@charter.net> writes:
ken wrote:
First, I don't know of any comparison of the number of keystrokes.
Well, that's just my experience so far after one week of using emacs.
Could you elaborate? I can't think of any serious inefficiencies in
emacs vs. vi, so I'm wondering if something else is going on. Perhaps
you're mentally ascribing two key strokes to control-f because you
have to push two keys and you aren't used to that,
Secondly, other things are much more important.
Actually, the number of keystrokes is number one importance to me and
to a lot of people, I guess.
Well, I actually agree with others that there are many more important
issues, but the one that drives me crazy about vi actually winds up
causing more keystrokes in vi: the modalism. It seems like every vi
session I end up spending the majority of keystrokes cleaning up text
executed as commands because I thought I was in text-enter mode or
commands entered as text because I thought I was in command-mode.