On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:08 PM, patricia campbell < [email protected]> wrote:
> [snip] One editor to rule them all. > > 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 > -- Jean-François Théroux Linux/network security consultant http://www.theroux.ca
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