Saluton Tony :) On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:22:56 +0100, Tony Mechelynck dixit: > On 11/02/09 09:43, James Freer wrote: > > Just in case you're wondering - i'd say gedit is an excellent editor > > but for future use and development i want to learn Vim. > > Don't know gedit. I haved used kedit when I was new with Linux and > didn't know about Vim yet; from what I remember of it, it's a kind of > Notepad look-alike.
I've used gedit sometimes and I must say it is a very good editor, fast, with lots of nice features and very apt for development. Very good indeed... except it is not Vim. As feature-full as gedit is, any Vim user will feel "crippled" when using it. In short: I miss a lot of things when using gedit, and modality is not one of them ;) Apart from syntax highlighting there's no much work that gedit does for you when programming, and after using Vim for a while one gets used to the fact that the editor can (and should) do a lot of automatic work for you. > I have also used WordStar (how long ago was that?) Oh, my, time flies! Last time I used WordStar was back in 1991, I didn't even have a computer of my own back then! Compared with the very difficult to use although powerful editor (EDT) in a very old VAX/VMS that I had to use at the time to code in Pascal, WordStar and later Turbo Pascal were marvellous. OTOH, VAX/VMS was MUCH better than MS-DOS, even when used thru an old VT-102 together with other 20 users at the same time (the DEC machine had a CPU that could be compared in power to a i...@33mhz). Just incredible, but EDT was a pain to use. For some people, Vim may look a bit out-of-fashion, specially the console version, taking into account all the nowadays apps with all their bells and whistles, but it is, to date, the best editor I've used, and I measure the quality from the effort I have to make to proficiently do my editions duties. A very old "vi" which I used on an Ultrix machine at the same time I used EDT on VAX/VMS was much better than EDT, although I didn't like the modal aspect... > What I like in Vim is its customizability, and more than anything else > its comprehensive help. I must confess I don't use the help so much, but the thing that I like the most in Vim is its customizability too, specially in the aspect of "do this for me automatically". Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado -- Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen! We are waiting for 13 Feb 2009 23:31:30 +0000 ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
