From Vim to Emacs

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 26, 2014, 10:37 PM UTC

clarry wrote: post #87

chongli wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh? vi does not have any plugins; only vim. vi is even more bare-bones than vim, lacking a lot of features (macro recording and text objects being the ones I miss). It is extremely common to find vi pre-installed on countless servers, however, making it extremely convenient if you're an expert with it. What's amusing to me is how many people don't know vi very well and use plugins in vim that vi can handle as well o…

This bothers me. People should just call it vim when they mean vim. I suspect most people here haven't actually touched Joy's vi or its closest derivative, nvi. I don't know where this practice comes from but it feels exactly the same as when people say Unix when they are very obviously talking about GNU/Linux.

Post by unhammer » Sat, Sep 27, 2014, 6:09 AM UTC

klibertp wrote: post #120

unhammer wrote: post #77

"With Vim I had defined a keybinding that selected the last pasted text. It was useful when you wanted to reformat or indent text that you've pasted from somewhere. At the moment I've been unable to reproduce this in Emacs." - in non-evil-mode at least, C-x C-x will reselect what you last pasted if you haven't moved. What really happens is that when you paste, the "mark" is set there (equivalent to doing C-SPC), and…

No need for text properties, just make "yank-last-start" and "yank-last-end" markers instead of simple ints ( https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Ma... ) - they will be moved automatically with every edit.