On 8/18/23 9:57 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Understood, but vi and emacs are still on my list of software to learn.
It's been a LONG time since I've gone through it, but I can say that
vimtutor (command) worked well for me back in the day.
I've had fun playing VIM Adventures (https://vim-adventures.com/) to
refresh basics and learn more advanced things. -- I think one of the
things that VIM Adventures teaches is think about what you want to do
and how to direct VIM to do it in the fewest keystrokes possible.
Mostly because of things like . (dot) repeatability, macros, and the likes.
I've found Practical Vim and Vim Casts from Drew Neil and -- I think --
his Vim Casts to be worth watching.
I don't remember the last time I launched emacs. I chose vi(m) more
than 20 years ago because it started multiple times faster than emacs on
the same system. I go into and out of editors and live on the command
line. I don't boot an editor and live therein.
I found multiple views of the same file to be quite useful in XEDIT.
Yep. I'll do similar in vim.
N.B. when I said multiple cursors, I was thinking multiple people on
different systems editing different parts of the file. I'm sure there
are legitimate use cases for that, just not in the text files that I'm
editing.
Take away CPAN and I would have abandoned Perl years ago. Libraries
like CTAN are too useful to ignore. I regard them as part of the
ecosystem.
ACK
Take emacs. There's a plethora of stuff that has grown up around it,
and that makes it more useful than it would have been in isolation.
Yep.
Grant. . . .
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