Re: Any poets here?

On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 16:59 -0600, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2015-01-30 21:11, kouzennoki@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Fortunately, Vim allows you work around that. I've had a keyboard go
> bad mid-editing, and there are numerous work-arounds:
>
> - use ":redo" instead of ^R
>
> - map it to another key: ":nnoremap Q <c-r>".
>
> - compose the desired command elsewhere and then paste it into
> your terminal as a command for vim to interpret.
>
> > Yes, only Vim can perform such a feat.
>
> Frankly, other than perhaps emacs, I can't think of any other editor
> that *gives you the power* to remap every bit of functionality across
> the board just to work around a broken keyboard. My limited emacs
> experience is what prevents me from confirming this, but my
> understanding is that it could be done with little trouble as well.
>
> > Press two wrong buttons and lose your entire file.

also
google "vim persistent undo"
google "vim backup backupdir"


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