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Re: [TCLUG:13146] VI quick reference



this is why vi is sometimes "hard to use" because it's up to the user to
remember the state of their editing.  but if forgotten, hitting escape
will allways drop you back to command mode. :)

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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 "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote:

> ^chewie said:
> > *sigh*  non-intuitive.  Can you *seriously* call ANY console-based text
> > editor intuitive.
> 
> s/console-based text editor/piece of software/
> 
> > intuitive design is nothing more than perception of the
> > user.
> 
> Damn straight!  In a number of ways, *nix feels more 'intuitive' to many
> people (like me) because of a number of internal consistencies (although
> there are exceptions, of course...), yet we hear daily that Windows is more
> 'intuitive' than anything available under *nix, which leads to people making
> Win95-clone window managers left and right.
> 
> But Windows is _not_ more intuitive than *nix (or at least *nix GUIs), it's
> more _familiar_.  I'm sure you've seen this argument made dozens of times in
> relation to OSes, and (if you're on the TCLUG list) you probably agree with
> it to some extent.  But the principle applies to any application just as
> well:  An 'intuitive' piece of software is one that behaves like you've been
> trained to expect software to behave.
> 
> Having said that, modal software tends to be confusing to beginning (and
> sometimes even experienced) users unless it clearly advertises the current
> mode (paint programs changing the cursor into brushes, erasers, etc. is
> 'clear advertisement'; vi-like programs displaying 'Input' or 'Command' at
> the bottom of the window isn't - it still takes a conscious effort by the
> user to check the mode) because the same keystrokes will inexplicably do
> different things at different times.
> 
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