On 26/08/09 17:48, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > > Ben Fritz wrote: >> >> >> >> On Aug 25, 8:14 pm, Ken Bloom<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> When I first got interested in vim, it was because I watched people do >>> vi's relatively simple navigation things -- being able to move a word at >>> a time, delete a word, replace a word with simple keystrokes. >>> >>> But I don't think these make for a good tutorial. >>> >> >> Agreed. This is why I suggest having them do it with some rudimentary >> knowledge, then doing it in front of them on a projector or something. >> They will see all the fancy stuff and a few of them might become >> interested. > > Thanks to everyone for your input. We will probably give them a program > and a makefile, so they can use make, copen and friends along with > editing. As it is, many of them come from a background of Borland's C++ > environment, not latest-and-greatest Eclipse and the like, so hopefully > we'll get a positive response. > > Cheers, > Vlad
Don't deride Turbo C, I used it on Dos and it already had a decent keyboard-driven editor, plus excellent syntax help on the C language, and it came with an outstanding debugger. Best regards, Tony. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 118. You are on a first-name basis with your ISP's staff. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
