No, I implied vim has more uses than any one person could possibly imagine.
I also meant any question like "Why would anyone want ...?" really just
means "I can't imagine wanting ", so if that isn't what you meant to
say you might want to rephrase your question. I would ask why anyone
would
My statements were meant to say I find vim very useful. grep and sed are
great; I use grep all the time, and sed occasionally (because I'm usually
looking at large files rather than editing them). vim is just more
convenient for looking at the lines above and below a regular expression
match, es
On Wed, 23 May 2007, fREW wrote:
|Someone recently was emailing the list about looking at a small
|section of DNA with vim as text and it was a number of gigs. I think
|he ended up using other unix tools (sed and grep I think), but
|nontheless, text files can be big too ;-)
|
|-fREW
|
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First, thanks very much for creating VIM! I have been using it on Linux
systems for years, and now use it via cygwin at home as well. I vastly prefer
VIM to EMACS, especially at home. I learned vi on a VAX/VMS system long ago (a
friend of mine had ported it), when our computer science depar
