* <[email protected]> [2015-01-30 21:26]: > Personally I think Vim is the antithesis of something poetic, > because of the vast difficulty in doing simple things :p. > The topics that are regular on this list, and elsewhere... it is > like it is an attempt at doing everything the difficult way ;-).
i am sure you have many examples to show.. can you show, say, three examples? > I would never write anything non-software > or non-configuration file or non-technical. so you basically dont know anything about Eric's proposed question? > Because I would not want to be bugged by endless keypress-mistakes > and the only reason I use Vim really is because of its speed. you just contradicted yourself. > Sometimes hating the day I (or it) was born when I > accidentily delete a piece of text and I cannot > revert the change for some reason. "undo" is your friend. > I had this keyboard or computer where > I was that didn't do CTRL-R. hardly a vim problem, but poor choice of keyboard. > Yes, only Vim can perform such a feat. > Press two wrong buttons and lose your entire file. > It is for the risky and daunting. let me repeat: "undo" is your friend. it is even persistent between sessions. how many more editors do you know which can do that? please name at least one. > Anyway, good luck with your search. > I'll be using vim just for > Linux/Unix editing though. Vim exists for many more systems - and for whatever kind of text you want to write. alas, you completely failed to give any evidence to your statements. and no info at all about the question itself. :-/ Sven -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
