From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out.smtp-auth.no-ip.com (smtp-auth.no-ip.com [8.23.224.61]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BBD8277EFE for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 17:58:41 -0700 (PDT) X-No-IP: carhart.net@noip-smtp X-Report-Spam-To: abuse@no-ip.com Received: from carhart.net (unknown [99.52.200.227]) (Authenticated sender: carhart.net@noip-smtp) by smtp-auth.no-ip.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7520540096C for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 18:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kevc (carhart.net [192.168.1.179]) by carhart.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t7V10s99006978 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 18:00:54 -0700 To: Edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com From: Kevin Carhart Reply-to: Kevin Carhart User-Agent: edbrowse/3.5.4.2 Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 18:00:54 -0700 Message-ID: <20150730180054.kevin@carhart.net > Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Edbrowse-dev] general thoughts on the text editor X-BeenThere: edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Edbrowse Development List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 00:58:41 -0000 Before the past few days, I had not used the text editing commands ever, and I had been using the web browser for about 7 years. So my impressions are that it's very clean and enjoyable. There are a lot of commands I have not familiarized myself with, but I am using c,d,a, - and the numbers. These are very intuitive. I wonder if edbrowse makes me edit and pore over things for a long time (which I do already) because it is so fun and easy to scroll back with ------ and find one more thing you would like to splice into. I am getting into trouble because if I have an unknown number of lines of editing-runoff and scraps at the end of the message and want to get rid of everything below where I am, my fingers want to go d,d,d,d an indiscriminate number of times, which I am getting from vi, where I think you can say 999999999dd and be safe. You just erase from where you are to the end, you don't erase your whole thing. I noticed that edbrowse will indeed start eating the last line and shortening the whole thing. Anyway, I know there are multiple ways of getting there, like can you grab the present line number into a variable and then use it in n+1,$d ? Just impressions from a new user, thanks Kevin ? ?