Re: [vile] mini-buffer question

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "j. van den hoff" <address@hidden>
| To: "Vile List" <address@hidden>, "Paul Fox" <address@hidden>
| Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 5:50:20 AM
| Subject: Re: [vile] mini-buffer question
| 
| On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 01:11:07 +0100, Paul Fox
| <address@hidden>
| wrote:
| 
| > wayne wrote:
| >  > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 01:56:44PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
| >  > > I would certainly prefer having to hit ^V prior to inserting
| > "special"
| >  > > characters, but I'm the only one who uses vile. Not only is
| >  > > that the
| >  > > traditional vi behavior but most shells default to that as
| >  > > well. Of
| >  > > course it can be worked around but in my old age my muscle
| >  > > memory
| > takes
| >  > > precedence over my mental memory :)
| >  >
| >  > HA HA that should have read "not the only one who uses vile".
| >  > That one
| >  > gave me a laugh.
| >
| > my thought was, "well, i think there are at least 3 of us..."  :-)
| 
| still a too pessimistic assessment ;-)
| 
| joerg

I have an impression that actual users are a lot more than those on the
mailing list - perhaps several hundred to low thousands worldwide.
That's not really a large number, but it's not negligible.

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