My favorite text editor (yes it’s more than that) is given its due justice in this series of tutorials over at Linux Gazette. Sooner or later you are gonna have to learn Vim (Vi) or Emacs, might as well learn the better one :-P.
Editing with vi can be a nightmarish experience for newbies of unices. But it is one of the most popular editors in the unix world, and nearly all unix boxes are equipped with some variant of vi.
Well I definitely wouldn’t recommend non-geek users to give Vim a shot, but nobody who reads this site is a non-geek user so I say give Vim a shot. It available for windows as well.
I learnt vi in 1987. After leaving UNIX for the world of windows development, I thought ‘bare’ vi was an oboslete software fossil. Last year, however, I discovered vi-improved, which, when coupled with ctags, can do things that IDE’s 10 times the size cannot. I particularly like being able to save and restore arbitary ‘sessions’: I find them much more flexible than the IDE notion of ‘project’ files..and a lot faster, too.
FYI: your link to vim.org is broken. Seems like it only works with http://www.vim.org/ For some reason you need the www in there. Must be the way they have their server configured.
Good looking out. Guess I didn’t notice because firefox automatically redirected with the www.
Does anyone else hit ESC routinely when using Word or another text editor?
It’s the curse of vi, I guess.
I usually hit esc:wq when entering text into these text boxes (especially at blogger.com etc.) Usually I realize what is happening before I post.
I don’t se it as “the curse of vi(m)”, more like “the charm of vi(m)” ;)
:wq