emacs vs vi

[Nate Hess]

In article <1225 at unisoft.UUCP> greywolf at unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf) writes:
>There is one thing that vi has that no other (non-vi, non-ed related)
>editor seems to have: An UNDO feature!  How many times have you really
>trashed something in one swell foop and been grateful to have that 'u'
>key handy?  How many times have you not had it handy and wished you
>had?

Yes, an undo feature is nice, but vi's is massively limited.  For
example, if you accidentally have the shift lock key engaged and press 5 or
6 'J's, you're hosed, since pressing 'u' will only undo the last one of
them -- your file still looks like a bloody mess, and the only way to
"recover" is to :q!.

GNU Emacs, on the other hand, has a fully featured undo that allows one
to undo all the way back to an untouched file, one change at a time.

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