On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:49:17PM -0600, Steve wrote: > Neither ones keystroke combinations, are the least bit intuitive, and > any time I have to stop and think about how to accomplish something in > my text editor, that is time taken away from being productive and > editing the text.
Ok, I'll give you that the movement keys aren't unless you think about the home row where your hands are. But delete is 'd' (followed by a movement key for how much, or another 'd' for a whole line). 'i' to insert text, 'I' for insert at the start of a line, 'a' to append, 'A' to append to a line. '/' to start a search (even firefox defaults to that), 'n' to go to the next match, 'N' to go back a match. While there are commands that I don't think are the most clear, I find that after using 'vimtutor' I was able to edit as efficiently as a plain text editor/ide, and now after learning more I am much more efficient. > Maybe it's because growing up in the 80's, I cut my teeth on programs > like edit, and quickbasic, that I expect a text editor to behave in > some consistant fashion, and just be well, a text editor, this is > also the most likely reason that when I program I rarely have use for > all the features of an IDE, and IDE's are essentially just glorified > text editors 9/10 times they get fired up. As a disclaimer, I used edit and quickbasic back in the day, and built my first webpages in notepad. I started to use emacs in my early college courses, and then read about vi, and looked into it. At least for me a modal editor makes a lot of sense, and I'm able to edit text and code a lot more efficiently. That's been my experience, and I'll go back to lurking. -- Scott Paul Robertson http://spr.mahonri5.net GnuPG FingerPrint: 09ab 64b5 edc0 903e 93ce edb9 3bcc f8fb dc5d 7601
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