-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 23:49 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: >> > >> > I'm an emacs user who's nearly completely useless in vi. But, really... >> > it just doesn't matter if emacs isn't installed by default. If you want >> > it, you know how to get it. And let's be frank: emacs is not something >> > that a user who is unaware of it might stumble into and suddenly find >> > himself blindingly productive. (Nor, for that matter, is vi.) >> > >> >> I agree. My problem is not that emacs is missing in development stack. >> My problem is when there is something wrong with the computer and I >> have to boot in the rescue mode, I can't rescue anything because emacs >> is not there. I wrote on a piece of paper how I would save and exit in >> vi, or exit without saving in vi, but that paper is gone now. I wish >> vi had some tutorial the way emacs does, so one don't get lost in it. > > I'd recommend you use nano instead (which is, I believe, installed by > default for just this purpose). It has the main keyboard shortcuts > permanently displayed on screen, so you can't lose 'em. :) > I think there's a shortcut to go into "advanced" mode without those displayed. However, it's probably some finger acrobatic (like all its other shortcuts C-_ to go to line number? wtf?) unlikely to be accidentally pressed, so all should be good for normal usage. - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJLFFYEAAoJEKaxavVX4C1XQXoQAIWiR/j/S1FHLiLfo+2ii36V dMUOuPuS0yuXJy6JGk/EAtVE7ie/1L7cYpGkM2RKWu+xZRXKt6d1raMrcK4MDa+k +hYuP00fRKlry7BthgA9VWz3EJWk4WzP/QCDlVyB5+iI+sfbujZvw1gKMCYpR85n EcD0OmJHz9TzElhveasmY68GoTFgz+atm+uaAqJDDl2DVRc0fC8I41jeJMeauEoM WCqHD9tOYDQKGMfZiJmsLj2e1MnnBpr0+heFhswKFc4ZXlvhBLLH5ERAQ5nsZ55q ToWRQ2Ah0xrSHgDFjdNR/uFFFn+3oOqf5+a0TJ32VFf6eoixlTr6nVtiOzonx5RO ZDbw11PZks/CXo4U3s4pIAWRap9mE9llo6/ZvAUI7gCxHlvEzqKR2anYeb1F5ZFK Dj0AWkpPYIGV32EcnQQMC5h175AAoX7QNtlnoe8Xwh3SRS/EszcYxslzIYjelLlK 8+8T5DxAvqwJnROM0sZcEpfLHGEPG39Qk/e8YOELBMpS0VRjzfkeb2rpTopjDUlF EdxCNuKSrU02M+q3oqkEUSaGfMfcrD83O0QVbVOqmSYvKZputXOdQI4ACXauqstu jzrGSu4yKtXJNf2h7rS9Gkf90nMHFc/YbRW2PM3F8+Ky6lLE6jXpO1as0Dydj0cm IJHak47popNC3AQcey7M =CMx8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
