On 9/5/07, Richard Forth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vim is the only editor I have ever used, so I dont know any better, also > because of the exposure to cross-platfroms and also oftentimes on the > servers lack of a gui anyway. I do use gedit quite a lot but i'd like to get > to grips with VI so that in the event that i need to use it where gedit is > not availiable (and i dont have my VI cheat sheet with me), I'm not > screaming at the server going "WHY ARE YOU TYPING RANDOM CHARACTERS INSTEAD > OF MOVING THE CURSOR" (when trying to use arrow keys to move the cursor), > which I embarrasingly do on quite a regular basis, actually....
Richard- Are you using vi or vim? I have only seen random characters with the arrow keys when I use vi instead of vim in Ubuntu. As for editors, I used emacs and vi when I was in school and when I started working, the office was using Unix so I used vi. Ever since then, I have been using vi(m) and enjoying it since. Oddly enough, I prefer to do my programming using vi(m) instead of the nice GUI editors that are available today. For some reason, the keyboard shortcuts have become more efficient for me than using the mouse. _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
