Re: [SLUG] Record keys in editor

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2007 - 14:59:26 EDT


On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, steve szmidt wrote:

> On Friday 07 September 2007 11:58, Robin - Bartow FL wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: steve szmidt steve@szmidt.org
>> To: slug@nks.net
>> Sent: 9/7/07 11:23 AM
>> Subject: [SLUG] Record keys in editor
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In the long gone past I had an editor which would allow me to record
>>> keystrokes and replay them by pressing a simple combination like Ctrl 1.
>>>
>>> Running into another need for that functionality I've been through a
>>> number of editors and development tools but not found that functionality,
>>> anyone know of one?
>>>
>>> Office writer has it but you have to go through several mouse steps to
>>> replay it which makes it too slow.
>>>
>>> Vi has buffer replay but it too seem to require too much typing.
>>>
>>
>> Not my forte', but I would look beyond Vi to
>>
>> vim-enhanced
>> vim-X11
>>
>> for greater functionality and an already familiar path of study.
>
> I guess I should have said vim, since I'm on Linux.

I recently installed Ubuntu 7.06 on my laptop, and "vi" invokes vim, but in
a vi-like mode -- arrow keys don't work in insert mode, and there are
probably other differences I haven't found yet. "vim" works as expected.

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