On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 08:23:49PM +0100, Mark Clarkson wrote: > Hi Tero, > Vim is great for this but has a steep learning curve. Vim is also tuned for > touch typists, which eventually pushed me into learning touch typing, which > is great, especially for night time coding. One really simple and often > overlooked feature is being able to view source code in two columns, which > is something I've never seen in graphical IDEs - for this reason I always > make my code fit into 80 cols and have 4 character tabs. Ctags and Cscope > are supported natively so jumping to functions/definitions is easy. > Syntax highlighting is good, it now has a form of 'intellisense' and > tabs in version 7, plus excellent regular expression search/replace, > multi-branch undo, keystroke recording (I use alot) and a great diff > viewer (invoked with vimdiff usually). It also does the things you > mentioned!
Also, look through /etc/vim/vimrc for options to comment out, like to have Vim jump to the last position when reopening a file -- Chris. ====== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]