On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 03:03, Tim wrote:
> > In a text-mode text editor, you normally use commands to navigate,
> > like /text<enter> instead of visually scanning. It's obviously faster
> > in a large document, but once you are used to it, it is also faster
> > than moving your hand to the mouse even to move a few lines or words
> > over.
>
> Though, you can't use that technique if you don't know the word that
> you're looking for, or you're scanning through something that you've
> written to see how it hangs together.
Agreed - if you don't know what you want to do, you'll have
a hard time giving the computer a command to do it for you.
And you'll find it impossible to scale beyond things small
enough to wade through visually.
Otherwise, the point of using the computer is to do the
grunge work for you instead of just making it harder to
view than it would be on paper.
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Les Mikesell
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