[net.micro.mac] Porting UNIX Applications to the Mac: mouse-based/vi

dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (09/29/86)

>>> It's true that you can go directly to a specific line number but you can't
>>> easily go up five lines and over twenty characters.
>
>I don't know about vi, but there are several ways it could be done in EMACS.
>And in Hemlock, an EMACS-family editor built into Spice Lisp, one can point
>and click using the puck or type keyboard commands as one prefers.

	With vi, you can precede any movement with a number (don't even have
to switch modes!). Thus 5k20l ...  Comparing this to a mouse based editor,
it is obvious the mouse wins.  The mouse generally wins for any 'cursor
movement' related things.  However, once get down to more more complex
operations, mouse based editors are useless.

						-Matt