On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 10:09 AM Greg Rundlett (freephile) < [email protected]> wrote:
> I use vim, but have never really become accustomed to advanced usage (even > multiple buffers is awkward). ... > On 9/19/19 4:54 PM, John Abreau wrote: > > > I absolutely*hate* vim. > > Hear hear! > > I'm an old VI fan, like others have mentioned, because of the finger > > memory. > I used to be that rare bird, a dual vi/emacs user -- because new OS installs one needs to use VI to install Emacs, it's good to know either ED or EX/VI. Back in the day, i had an older HP terminal that had a even longer termcap entry than a VT100. VI could use that to reverse scroll, or scroll a sub-range of rows (leaving status rows alone) so despite having a 4800bps network connect box, i could edit faster with that than with VI or Emacs on a VT101 with 9600bps network connect card inboard. (Unix PWB, BSD3, BSD 4) When my wrists got problematic (better now), I dropped Emacs and switched to VIM and GEDIT because CTRL-META-COKEBOTTLE was too much stretch ouch ouch. Mostly still using VI finger memory. I haven't learned all the really advanced features of VIM, though perhaps I should. (For most purposes, switching between several VIMs with TERM, SCREEN, or ^Z %2 works well enough and is same skillz as switching non-VIM things so reusable knowledge!) One thing that makes VIM more usable: I've added an alias to launch a GVIM outside the terminal window. GVIM works with the Desktop COPY/PASTE buffer like a normal editor, separately from its own cut/copy/yank buffer. -- Bill Ricker [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
