On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 08:17 -0400, Mark Styles wrote: > 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 >
That's what I wanted to see, thanks! nick _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
