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Alex Charrett wrote: > On the other hand there's bound to be ocassions where vi is all you've got > to try and rescue a system with. I oringially learnt vi because I had to > use Solaris at work, and now that's all I use. Going back to something > else just feels clunky! Mmm, regex. In the dim and distant past when I was a student, I used microemacs out of preference. Then I got a job in the real world working for a company that was supplied hundreds of different UNIX(-like) machines by OEMs all over the world. The only full-screen editor you could guarantee you'd find on any machine you logged into was vi, so I quickly learned to use it. Almost twenty years later, vi is now so deeply ingrained in my subconcious that I don't think twice about how to do things and I still use it because it's pretty much the only editor you can be sure will be installed on any given system. I'd love to have vi-style modal editing for thunderbird. As you say, anything else just feels clunky, especially if it requires that I take my hands off the keyboard (or even away from the "home" keys, really) to perform some operations. James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html