> It actually is consistent. There's no cursor movement that represents the
> whole line.

Actually that's weird for me as the dot (.) supposed to be the
representation of the actual line, so it's a mystery for me why not 'd.',
'y.' or 'c.' works. I agree that 'dd' is faster than 'd.' though.

Tamas


On Dec 3, 2007 12:48 PM, Byron Jeff <byronjeff@clayton.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 04:08:22PM +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> > On 12/3/07, Byron Jeff <byronjeff@clayton.edu> wrote:
> > > Right. The d command is always followed by a direction command. So dl
> is
> > > acually equivalent to 'x'.
> >
> > but dd will delete the whole line. ;-)
>
> It actually is consistent. There's no cursor movement that represents the
> whole line. So the command set uses the specification of repeating the
> command to represent the whole line so:
>
> dd: delete a whole line
> cc: change a whole line
> yy: yank a whole line
>
> Like I said, consistent. In class I call this the vi command hierarchy and
> I find that it's one of its strengths.
>
> BAJ
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