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No, you're wrong and he is right and now it is clear that you're just laughing

• lutusp 13y ago
  > No, you're wrong and he is right ... That's for sure. In a single post he asserted both that there are modes, and there aren't modes. That leaves no room for another viewpoint. There's one sure way to win an argument -- assert all possible viewpoints, declare victory, and depart the field.
  • lake99 13y ago
    Declare what victory? I have no* stance in superiority of the whole modal vs. non-modal deal. Whenever I have a choice, I pick a modern GUI editor, just like you. Far from "[asserting] all possible viewpoints", I mentioned specific keystrokes that you could try out too. If you are in insert-mode, and use arrow keys to visit a different location, you'd continue to be in insert-mode. Is it implemented as a secret hack to quietly enter and exit the scroll mode when arrow keys are pressed? I neither know nor care. However, in this usage scenario, modes are not exposed to the end-user. * actually, I do like modal behaviour, but in very few cases. In MS Windows, it used to be the case that Win-space z would put the window in resize-mode. One could then use arrow keys to resize the window. There was a similar sequence for moving windows too.
  • Oletros 13y ago
    No, he has not asserted that vim doesn't have modes and if you're seriously claiming that then it is clear that you have a serious cognitive problem