On Sunday 08 Jul 2007 11:31:30 Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
I've found <ctrl>+x+s and <ctrl>+x+c much faster than <esc>+:w and <esc>+:q.
There's always <esc>+ZZ
Again, I've found emacs copy paste easier to use than vi's. Take your cursor to the start of the point where you want to copy and press <ctrl>+<space>. Then go to the end of the section your want to copy and press <Esc> and then <shift>+w.
To cut+paste do <ctrl>+<space> and <Esc> and <ctrl>+w.
Tried the visual mode in vim? <esc>+v at the start, then use any other navigation command to take you to the end. Either yank or delete with y or d. Then paste with p or P. Equally easy methinks.
Oh, and the visual block mode is yummy.
Then again, I haven't used the original vi. All of the above applies to vim.