[squeak-dev] SVI and Vim

Mark Volkmann mark at ociweb.com
Sat Oct 4 02:24:18 UTC 2008


On Oct 3, 2008, at 8:59 PM, Brian Rice wrote:

> On Oct 3, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Tobias Pape wrote:
>
>> Hello —,
>> Am 2008-10-02 um 15:00 schrieb Jason Rogers:
>>
>>> vi-like editing is not just for large text processing.  If you are
>>> used to vi's navigation style, for instance, you are probably much
>>> quicker using h, j, k, l, w, f(N), d(N), y, p, etc. than CMD+Arrow  
>>> (or
>>> is it CTRL+Arrow, or wait maybe it's Alt+Arrow, ah nuts -- just  
>>> reach
>>> for the mouse).
>>>
>>> The decision to use vi or not has nothing to do with the size of the
>>> method.  It's a productivity choice -- and for me, it's mostly  
>>> muscle
>>> memory.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> And (with no intention to start a flame war) emacs keybindings  
>> would be
>> nice, either.
>> This is not only influenced by using Emacs, but also by the fact  
>> that my
>> major OSes support such keys by default in their editing environments
>> (i. e. Linux and Mac OS X).
>
> SVI has an included set of emacs-style keybindings (set up via  
> instructions once installed).


Can anyone confirm that they have gotten SVI to work with Squeak 3.10?

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