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Best Text Editor / Re: Is this serious?

« on: February 21, 2007, 02:14 AM »

Please note the review does not say Vi cannot do any of the things listed; it only says they're too hard to figure out.
According to Wikipedia, "Vi" stands for "visual". I rest my case

-tranglos (February 20, 2007, 08:30 PM)

I do know, why vim has it's set of mappings, and that do not change what I said. You still edit faster if you do not need to move your hands.

Well, vi is visual because you can se the whole textfile, not only a row like in ed.

The text editor review is getting a little old, i'll update it with your comments though.  i have to admit im not much of a vi[m] fan.  i know it's powerful but the interface is just too much for me.  at least with emacs i feel like im still on a planet inhabited by humans.  with vi i feel like i've been transported to an alien universe made for creatures who use telepathy instead of fingers.

-mouser (February 20, 2007, 11:45 PM)

thank you. Vim is not for everybody (vim sucks before you can handle it. If you try vim for at least three months you probably like it ). Still the interface is a matter of taste. Just because vims interface is different that the standard windows interneface, doesn't mean that it is bad.

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Best Text Editor / Re: Is this serious?

« on: February 20, 2007, 05:04 PM »

Oh, I forgott to change the undo thing, done now .

The binary thing is not strong in vim, but it is there. Try :help hex for more information.

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Best Text Editor / Is this serious?

« on: February 20, 2007, 04:39 PM »

I would like to thank for a good writter test. I liked it, always to the vim post. Now I can't trust anything written in the test, becuase everything (almost at least) writter about vim was horrible wrong!

Column mode: Yes, excellent, use ctrl+V for marking text in visual mode.
Hex mode: Yes, use the -b switch and the set display to uhex
Searching: Just typing / (can that really be so hard?) and you will have the power of reg exp. Compete with that!
Undo: Press u
Macros and Scripting: custom vimscript
User Tools: a lot, visist vim.org
Code Folding: Very good folding, learn more with :help folding

Vim is a tool, a tool for people that needs to edit textfiles, a lot of them, and fast. If you can't handle it, it probably isn't the tool for you, but do not lie about it.

vim is best used with the keys, that's a _text editor_. When you type, you are using the keys, not the mouse. Leave the mouse out of it, also leave the arrowkeys out of it, it just eats time from your editin. With vim, there's no need for a mouse or arrowkeys.

With other features like, code completion. I would say that vim is one of the most powerful editors out there.