Comments on: Efficient Editing with vim

By: watch me

watch me — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:00:35 +0000

hmm…:?

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:54:00 +0000

Like Brian said, it’s the nasty learning curve that is the toughest to get past. But once past it, vi is an incredibly efficient way to edit. I use it primarily for writing perl scripts and doing text file manipulation.

:%s/^M//g

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:13:37 +0000

Ugh, pico. ;)

Seriously – vi (and especially Vim) is a tool that can be incredibly useful, once you get past that nasty sharp learning curve. I’m so much faster these days with it. I love it.

Also, I didn’t know about ]] to go to the end of the file. Simply typing a cap G will do it as well. #G will jump to line number #, but no number and it goes to the bottom. I’ll tend to use sequences like ggVG to go to the top, go into Visual Line mode, then go to the bottom to select the whole buffer (and I’d bet there’s a better key sequence for that).

By: JC

JC — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:44:54 +0000

You know, I don’t think it’s remotely possible to create a text editor less user friendly than vi. I think geeks use it just so they can seem like geeks. I’ll stick with pico for any command line editing, thanks. :-)