Hi David,
I like VI(m) too.
I'd like to point out, however, that ISPF and XEDIT allow the user to
restrict edits to a column range.
This capability AFAIK is ONLY available on Mainframe.
Regards,
David
On 2021-02-28 02:45, David Crayford wrote:
On 27/02/2021 8:22 am, Tom Brennan wrote:
You take that back!! :)
Sorry... I just used vi a minute ago and although I finally
remembered shift-g to move to the bottom, I had to goggle how to move
back to the top. gg Of course! It's so obvious.
:1 will also jump to the top. 'g' isn't a command, it's used to escape
although people assume it's goto as it's used to jump around the buffer.
I can remember when I first started learning vim I didn't find it
particularly intuitive. Once I got over the initial learning curve it
all made perfect sense. People like vim because its design philosophy
echos that of Unix. In both Unix and in vim, you have a collection of
atomic commands that perform one task well. More complicated tasks are
done by combining the smaller predefined tasks. For example, the vim
command dl deletes the next character, dw deletes the next word, and
db deletes the previous word. Here, d represents the delete operator
and must be followed by a movement task. lt means move to the next
character. w for the next word and b for the previous word. d2b will
delete the previous 2 words. dtx will delete every character up to the
next x in the current line. Once you grok this you won't want to use
another editor as you will find them unproductive. I also use
Slickedit and Intellij IDEA and I have Vim emulation running in both.
The key design is maximum economy of keystrokes. Your hand should be
glued to the home row. I've remapped the Windows caps lock key to ESC
(single key) and CNTL (multiple keys) to make this easier.
BTW, no need to google. Vim has excellent help. Just type :h motion
and use CNTL-] to follow links.
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