This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Simple Hack
Article: 7498 of alt.hackers From: grossjoh@linus.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Kai Grossjohann) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Simple Hack Date: 09 Mar 1995 19:45:07 +0100 Organization: Universitaet Dortmund, CS Dept, Chair 6 Lines: 22 Approved: Really? Message-ID: grossjohzngtzjerhkbk@linus.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: linus.informatik.uni-dortmund.de To: psmith@saturn.acs.oakland.edu (psmith) In-reply-to: psmith@saturn.acs.oakland.edu's message of 8 Mar 1995 02:05:52 GMT X-Newsreader: (ding) Gnus v0.31 Status: RO
>>>>> "psmith" == psmith
<psmith@saturn.acs.oakland.edu> writes:
>>>>> Michael Blandford (mikey@math.enmu.edu) wrote:
Michael> : ^[:wq
Michael> : Damn, thought I was in vi.
psmith> Try ^[ZZ
psmith> 1 less character
psmith> Then again, you're not in vi.
Hm, if ^[:wq is one character more than ^[ZZ I venture to say that the
former does nothing while the latter leaves vi. If you want ^[:wq to
do something, that will be two characters more than ^[ZZ...
ObHack: Being an Emacs user myself (and wouldn't want to use vi),
learning more about vi than the average vi user does so they can't say
``You don't even know what vi can do and you claim Emacs is better??
-- Come on!'' I know the opposite of Ctrl-E in vi...
\kai{}
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