On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:43:42PM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > > Is there a certain perception of text and text handling by vim people > which may be distintive different from people who definetly dont like > vim?
After about 15 years of using vim, the most relevant observation which penetrates my consciousness is that I use vim for everything, even MSW documents. (Type them in vim, import to openoffice, set font, etc., touching a mouse as little as possible.) That seems indicative of a perceptual leaning. Although I am not a touch typist, the keyboard and a fully key-driven text editor provide a single seamless interface, while mousing in GUIs mucks things up, first with the task of finding the physical mouse, then the cursor, then three attempts to highlight just the required text. The choice of vim is simple; I learnt vi way back when, not emacs. (Going back to being a beginner again seems rather pointless.) Vim then influenced my choice of MUA, since mutt supports composing mail in vim. I could not contemplate using a GUI for mail, or almost anything else. The ease of manipulating text with grep, awk, and sort, is also enormously attractive. Not only does that leverage existing knowledge (avoiding the inefficiency of acquiring and maintaining competing knowledge bases), but it fits the compelling "Unix _is_ the IDE" philosophy, which advocates a large suite of compatible simple tools. If only it supported POSIX EREs, instead of an insular regex dialect, I think it would be perfect. :-) Erik -- Emacs is a nice OS - but it lacks a good text editor. That's why I am using Vim. - Anonymous? -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
