On Wednesday 03 May 2006 23:44, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Christian Mayer wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >dene maxwell schrieb: > >>Very interested > >>in "VI" ...IIRC it is *nix based? ...after quick google > >> search, is VIM VI iMproved? > >> > >>Is there a windows based version of VI(M)? as I would like > >> to see the XML syntax feature you mentioned. > > > >http://www.vim.org/ > > > >There's also the Windows version. Vim is the successor to vi, > > so you can safely use it. > > > >BTW: it's allways important to know the basic vi commands. > > You might have to log in remote on a machine and fix > > something - if at least something works, vi will also > > work... > > > >To stop a holy war: The whole world knows that <insert > > favourite editor> the best in the whole mulitverse, and > > everybody who doesn't believe it is an idiot. > > And of course, every experienced unix professional knows the > original "vi" was already perfect. These so called > "improvements" in vim are simply a bunch of dumb bandaids and > cruches to help out those lazy people who don't have 6 months > to learn *real* vi and who think every editor ought to work > like notepad in windows. So what happens if you have to > access a system remotely and the terminal emulation is broken > so you can't do a full screen visual edit of a file. You > better be able to find your way around in ed ... at least well > enough to reconstruct an ascii terminfo file by hand from > scratch! > > Curt.
vi !!! <Monty-Python 'Luxury' sketch> When I started out in computers it was all teletypewriters. In those days 32K (words) was state o'art. Ferrite core store and none o' yer fancy transistor memory. Mercury delay lines...blah blah blah.........</Monty-Python 'Luxury' sketch> ;) LeeE ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
