Re: Informix Licensing and Pricing Schemes.

Surfer! wrote: > Serge Rielau wrote: >> Vi [...] > a = append > i = insert > x = delete > r = replace > c = change > > Is it really that bad? l = move cursor right? I use vi all the time; intuitive it is not, but powerful it is. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2005.02 -- http://dbi.perl.org/

Ob Quote: "l = move cursor right?" Well if you are using Ctrl-F /Ctrl B for forward and back paging with your left hand then the keys h-l are still accessible via your right hand. And / and n are easily accessible by your right hand. Pity l is to the right on the keyboad!

Yoda said: > > ... but powerful it is. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all columns in a table except the primary key could/should be nullable. this has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a child record and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert into the parent table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila, relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit controversial among modellers. --r937, dbforums.com

In message <oIizf.3476$Hd4.2098@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>, Jonathan Leffler <jleffler@earthlink.net> writes >Surfer! wrote: >> Serge Rielau wrote: >>> Vi [...] >> a = append >> i = insert >> x = delete >> r = replace >> c = change >> Is it really that bad? > >l = move cursor right? The right arrow key does that if the terminal description is correct. > >I use vi all the time; intuitive it is not, but powerful it is. > -- Surfer! Email to: ramwater at uk2 dot net