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Re: Changes to apt-get



On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 12:36:17PM +0700, Alex Grigorovich wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 18:49 -0400, Michael Marsh wrote:
> > vim has multiple-undo, which classic vi doesn't, for one.  
> 
> Classic vi does have multi-level undo, it just works differently from
> the one in vim. 
> 
> In nvi undo works pretty literally: it reverses the effect of previous
> command. In case the command was undo too it doesn't do anything special
> and reverses its effects, producing the original text.
> 
> To get multi-level undo you should use it in combination with redo (the
> '.' key). For example, pressing 'u..' goes three changes back.
> 

Thanks for that, Alex.  It's funny how some of the most useful things 
you learn here have nothing to do specifically with debian and 
certainly nothing to do with the subject of the thread.


-- 
David Jardine

"Running Debian GNU/Linux and
loving every minute of it."  -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895)



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