It has a high learning curve & if you are easily frustrated it you might not make it over but it is worth it if you force yourself to use it exclusively for a while. It is a fantastic tool for all of the reasons stated below. I object to the "if you are a coder it's a different matter" though I worked with a great team that used vim variations exclusively on a 2 year telecomm project in 1999-2001 w sockets & x.25 communications on HPUX, AIX & some proprietary hardware. We wrote & tested many twisty windy lines of code (a count which I think is no measure of quality or value btw) & a great product once we'd finished.
That said, you need VI because one day you will be stuck & it will be the only editor available... (btdt) Tricia On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Peter Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is no other editor around that let´s you keep your hands on the qwerty > part of the keyboard. Cursors, pgup/down, home, end, are all useless fluff. > That means you can type much faster, with much less hand motion. > > The integration of regular expressions via : commands, make search > and replace as powerful as awk, far easier than other editors. Uses > less memory than other editors, by far. > > :wq > > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Nicholas Accad <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Nick, >> >> I think it depends what role you are. when your elders were using 64K >> machines and *bragging* about it, VI was the only thing available, running X >> was not an option, even today, X is not an option in a lot of cases. >> >> If you are a coder, that is a different matter. But any sysadmin worth his >> salt uses VI because he is sure that it exists on any unix system he has >> access to. and in the extreme rare case where it is *NOT* available, we just >> cat and echo :) >> >> There is an O'Reilly book about VI, pick it up someday, you'll learn a lot. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Leslie Satenstein >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Nick Nobody <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 16:48 -0400, Chris O'Regan wrote: >>>> > > VIM is a simple text editor [...] >>>> > >>>> > Simple?! I keep learning new things in VIM that often save me *hours* >>>> > of work, and I probably use only 1% of its features. I figure that >>>> > once I learn 5%, my work-week will be a few minutes long and at 10% I >>>> > will actually start going back in time... >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Chris >>>> >>>> Please share some these "things". >>>> >>>> I tried using vim for a week and gave up after a day. I found that it >>>> was much more efficient to simply use kate or gedit... >>>> >>>> So I guess my question is: Why is vim so amazing? >>>> >>>> nick >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> mlug mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> VIM is so amazing because it is VI with colour. >>> >>> ------------------- >>> Regards >>> >>> Leslie Satenstein >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> mlug mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mlug mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >> > > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > -- ___..____._..___._..___. ...|...|___/..|..|......|..|___| ...|...|.....\..|..|___.|..|.....| _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
