| OK, I have VIM running on the Mac. I know that others have | touted VIM, | but I don't see the advantage -- it looks like several other | command-line editors available on *nix systems. It appears | to be heavy | on key-entry and light on GUI. It appears that to become proficient, | one must learn yet another series of keyed commands.
VIM is both CLI and GUI, the GUI version is called gvim. There is a threshold to get started into the whole world of vi, but it is worth it (if you ask me!). VIM can also operate "modeless" (like most other text-editors). | I guess my questions would be: | | 1) what are the advantages of using VIM over other editors | (CLI or GUI). It is available on virtually any platform there is. It is very customizable. It is very powerful when you get to know it. It supports folds, dictionaries, tags, scripts of all kinds, syntax editing for hundreds of languages, tab-completion, indenting, remote editing (ftp) and a lot more. | 2) what are the specific advantages to CFML, HTML,Java, JavaScript | coding. Syntax highlightning, custom dictionaries, custom scripts for each | 3) Is it worth the effort to learn to use this editor? I would say yes! | No offense intended, but VIM seems rather retrograde when compared to | some of the GUI editors currently available. | | I know an editor is a personal thing, but if one already is | comfortable | with BBEdit, JEdit, Studio, whatever -- what would be the | advantage of | learning VIM? | | It seems to me that you would be giving up quite a bit! | | I don't want to get into a Pi**ing contest -- I am sincerely | interested | in the advantages of VIM. | | Am I missing something? | | Dick | | | On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 11:08 AM, Dick Applebaum wrote: | | > On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 10:30 AM, Hugo Ahlenius wrote: | > | >> I am starting to get tired of promoting VIM as the best | editor/IDE for | >> all | >> CF related work... Which has almost any feature you throw | at it. And | >> thousands of more. | >> | >> No Emacs users out here? Or fellow VIM-mers? | >> | >> | > | > Mac OS X comes with emacs -- but a it is a CLI editor. | > | > There is a vim for Mac OS X at: | > | > http://macvim.swdev.org/OSX/ | > | > | > I am downloading it now -- will give it a try and comment later. | > | > Dick | | ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
