On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:18:08PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:59:02PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > | i think vim is abominable, deplorable and inconsiderate. it uses > | modes for this, modes for that... and i wouldn't ever consider > | using anything else. > > Come to think of it, emacs has more modes that vim ;-). (python-mode > c-mode this-mode that-mode)
vim has those types of modes, too -- perl highlighting, C shortcuts, html facilities... but i'm talking about INSERT mode versus COMMAND mode versus FRAMMISTAT mode versus CLAVIS mode... "w" goes forward a word in edit mode "w" inserts a "w" in insert mode "w" writes to a file in command mode ... ! > | wanna write up a vim intro at sourceForge.net/projects/newbiedoc/? > > I should. I've tried to introduce some of my friends to vim (CS > students at school). They didn't have any (real) editor experience, > and IMO CDE's notepad or Nedit don't really cut it for coding. I've > just learned about ^N ^P and ctags over on Python-list. Really cool. > > Can I write it in LaTeX? I want to learn to use latex effectively. i think some of the folks a newbiedoc are using latex. i'm just myself now getting up on sgml, so latex is way beyond me! (maybe you can write a newbiedoc intro for latex soon?) > It will probably take me a while due to time constraints. OTOH I will > be taking a trip soon and have lots of travel time I might be able to > put to good use. If not, this summer when I am bored in class I > should try and be useful ;-). we've got our hopes up, now... :) -- americans should never read anything so subversive as what's at http://www.salon.com/people/col/pagl/2001/03/21/spring/index1.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sourceforge.net/projects/newbiedoc -- we need your brain! http://www.dontUthink.com/ -- your brain needs us!
