On Monday, March 5, 2012 4:53:20 PM UTC-5, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2012-03-05, Govind wrote: > > I've been a longtime user of Textpad on windows and transitioning more to > > Linux. Gedit by itself doesn't have some features I want like > > a) Columnar mode selection > > b) ability to sort lines > > c) Word Wrap (at least nothing that jumped out) > > > > I was told that GVIM is pretty good in terms of being able to do stuff, so I > > want to get started using it. What are my next steps (I've installed it, of > > course). > > I think your first step should be to run the 30-minute tutorial > program, gvimtutor. If it's not covered in the tutorial, you should > also execute the Vim command ":help" to get an overview of what's > available from the built-in help system. > > You will find information on columnar mode selection under > > :help 04.4 > :help blockwise-visual > > Lines can be sorted using the internal :sort command or by filtering > a range of lines through an external command such as the Unix sort > command. See > > :help :sort > :help 10.9 > :help filter > > "Word wrap" means different things to different people, so you'll > have to explain what you mean more fully. Vim has many options that > control how lines are "wrapped". > > HTH, > Gary
I completed the tutorial last night and my first thought was "how come I didn't start to use this editor for the last 20 years I've been in software development". (Of course the answer is I did most of my programming on MVS!) Maybe like I said it is because I've been using ISPF editor all along. Yes, the "normal" mode and "INSERT" mode is somewhat strange, but using keyboard and command sequences to accomplish things are 2nd nature to me, so I kind of felt at home. -- 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
