text editing in ubuntu

[marc]

Chris Mohler wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Brian Clarkson<brian at clarkson.id.au> wrote:
>> "A simple, sane ~/.vimrc that starts vim in insertmode, and has shortcut
>> keys for saving/quiting:"
>>
> I think he was just pointing out that using vim without at least a
> basic .vimrc file is crazy.  I tend to agree :)

Me too! Although I don't agree with the idea of starting in insert mode.

Amongst other things, I retain the Windows' key mappings for things like
copy, paste, and save, so that other folk only need to learn a tiny
subset of commands to do basic things.

-- 
Best,
Marc

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