Re: [nmh-workers] Unnecessary dependency on vi???

[Bakul Shah]

On 16 Mar 2018 14:28:15 -0600 "Andy Bradford" <address@hidden> wrote:
Andy Bradford writes:
> Thus said Paul Fox on Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:59:57 -0400:
> 
> > The big exception  that I remember was his  implementation of infinite
> > undo using '.', which broke a corner  case of the redo command, but is
> > so easy to use.
> 
> Oddly enough, that is one exception that I praise and the one difference
> between nvi and vim that I cannot  live without. I use infinite undo via
> '.'  all the  time,  but not  only  that,  I'm impressed  by  how I  can
> ``reverse'' the direction of the undo and '.' repeats that decision.

Early in Vim's life I had emailed Moolenaar to suggest that
vim emulate nvi's behavior for the '.' command, at least as an
option.  He declined to do so and I continued using nvi.
Rapidly switching undo/redo direction in vim with e.g.
uuu^R^R^Ruu^R^R is much harder on my left thumb (& brain) than
vi's u..u..u.u. May be because reversing direction == u turn!