From: "Daniel H. Luecking" <luecking AT comp DOT uark DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: vim key commands - not too kool
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 11:08:08 -0600
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On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Weiqi Gao wrote:

> This is f!@#$ stupid,  This is f!@#$ stupod, This is f!@#$ stupid, This
> is f!@#$ stupid,
> 
> And found out that you misspelled the second 'stupid' as 'stupod'.  Now
> the cursor is at the end of the line.  How many key strokes does it take
> to correct the typo?

In my editor, the minimum seems to be 3:
  <F12>f<return>
  Meaning: 1. Run spellcheck
           2. Select menu option entire file, "stupod" is found.
           3. Accept first suggested replacement.

How many more keystrokes to replace all the commas with periods, and
adjust the spaces so they are all the same size? :-)

This is a DOS editor, by Semware.

Counting keystrokes is a stupod way of comparing editors.
Intuitiveness is also a bad way to compare editors. 

However: mapping "^H" to help really was a bad choice. Yes, it only
affected dumb terminals (where pressing <Backspace> sent "^H"), but it
was a choice made in the days when for many of us dumb
terminals connected to mainframe Unixes were our only choices. 

Which is not to say emacs is a bad editor, but they sure made it hard to
learn it in the days when I still had the time to do that.

-- 
Dan Luecking                           Dept. of Mathematical Sciences     
luecking AT comp DOT uark DOT edu                 University of Arkansas      
http://comp.uark.edu/~luecking/        Fayetteville, AR 72101