On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:38:56PM -0400, Nick Nobody 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?
This presentation will give you an idea: http://www.scribd.com/doc/263139/VIM-for-PHP-Programmers Some highlights: keyboard focused means less hand movement syntax highlighting powerful search and replace ability to run shell commands on buffers understands text objects (words, sentences, paragraphs, code blocks) macro recording unlimited undo time travel (yes, really; :earlier 10m takes you back to 10 mins ago) windows and tabs (which I don't use, I prefer multiple xterms) tab completion for files, commands, language functions the infamous tetris plugin -- Mark http://www.lambic.co.uk
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