On 09/24/12 12:19, vicky b wrote: > Thanks for the replies guys but in the present world where we > leave with so much of ide and code completion and so many > features what is that makes you guys stick to vim .. does it make > your job simpler or features are great or your use to it.
First, I've used Vim for so long that I now find things like ":w" appearing in my other editing tools (Query Analyzer, Word, etc), so using Vim is habit. Also, the power of Vim makes it very easy to perform quick transformations on text/queries which I regularly do. For DB work, one I frequently do is a SELECT TOP 1 * FROM SomeTable and run it in text-mode (rather than grid-mode). I then copy out the headers in the results, paste them into Vim and issue a :s/\t/,\r/g to turn them into named columns that I can order as I see fit, without hand-entering them all. That often makes the foundation of a SELECT clause for me. Matching parens/braces, syntax highlighting, batch transforms, macros, etc. are all reasons I have trouble stepping away from Vim. -tim -- 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
