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Alvaro Zuniga wrote:
| I am thinking about adding drag and drop support under gnome. This
| would
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| make a great difference for me. I usually have three copies of the
| editor running and three or four nautilus windows. I find it a lot
| more comfortable to drag and drop the file.
you should try out rox-session, almost everything has a drag and drop
interface.
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| Class Viewer is not available in vi.
have you tried develop? It can have vi as an editor and also has a class
viewer. :-)
How's that for modularity?
| But my dislike with vi is not a matter of its features really.
| WhatI hate is the what you need to do to save and even search.
search is /stringtosearchfor
this works in mozilla as well.
I don't think I can understand your frustration with :w
| When I was referring about the far away keys is not that it is only
| one key but multiple keys at opposite locations of the keyboard.
| Those I believe are the most basic functions of any editor.
I don't know about you but typically I can press 2 keys on different
sides of the keyboard faster than I can 2 on the same side.
|> vim can do code folding too you know. You can create named
|> markers, named buffers, move named buffers to named markers, jump
|> between named markers.... soo many things... And its fast, in a
|> screen session, xterm, console, across a 14.4kbps satelite phone
|> at $10 a minute(how much data would you want to move), vim rocks.
|>
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| It probably requires magic to make them work.
not at all, just a few simple keystrokes.
markers can be named {a-z}{A-Z}
ma
sets the position under the cursor to a marker named a
'a
goes to marker a
most buffer commands begin with :b
you can create buffers in swap and set them as readonly, many many
neet things to be done with buffers.|
You can add a file to a buffer without "opening" it
:badd file.txt
:badd file2.txt
That will add two new buffers to the buffer list.
to view the buffer list
:ls
to delete a buffer
:bdelete 2
or
:bdelete file.txt
edit the buffer? :b2 or :2b
buffers rock.
most the folding functions start with z
bah Im getting lazy...
:help fold
All of this is simplified even more in the gui enabled version of vim.
| Would you not like this knowlege to transfer to other applications?
| Kind of like Perl and Posix regex.
You don't want _my_ opinion of perl.
I find alot of applications use the same keystrokes as vi.
Like my mozilla refrence above. Also irssi, and screen share some
keystroke similarities. I'm sure there are others I just don't recall atm.
| All I meant to say is that if you forget to do su, as soon as you
| try to edit a file you get the notice that the file is read only.
| Then you have to exit vi and su and then start it again. With pico
| or nano this will be a lot more confortable because there are less
| commands.
How do I chmod or overwrite a file owned by another user in nano or pico?
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