vi sucks.

vim rocks.

But if you don''t like it, that''s fine. It doesn''t hurt me or anything.

The Artist Formerly Known as CmndrM

http://chaos.webhop.org

i,a,o its so coooooool

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Original post by Galapaegos
I know I could open emacs, but I don't like programs that can do everything. emacs is terrible across a network.

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[edited by - CWizard on October 6, 2003 7:04:50 PM]

[edited by - CWizard on October 6, 2003 7:05:59 PM]

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Vim''s fun. If I invested the time necessary to learn enough Emacs commands to be as efficient as I am in Vim, I''d go with either one. Since I haven''t, I stick with Vim.

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How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

I think that if I knew how to use the text editor, I could do just fine, well in Vim, vi sucks. Emacs is what I first used when I moved over to linux, because the commands were easier to memorize for me. Although now I use project builder on my OS X computer for source editing and emacs for everything else.

I love vi because you can make a duck whenever you want to move stuff around "<@''".

And yes I know there is a console emacs, but i like to forget about it.

Somebody made the comment that they find the mouse/window
keyboard more useful for moving around in large files. I
don''t know about Emacs (I''m assuming that it has comparable
abilities) but vi has really great support for putting
together simple or quite complex searches easily and quickly.
The vi search functionality puts the search function in every
GUI I''ve ever used to shame, and you don''t have to navigate a
bunch of menus and buttons to use it. Search and replace is
equally powerful, especially in vim. Again, this function is
much more capable than anything I''ve ever seen implemented in
a GUI.

Now, that doesn''t mean that vi is better for every editing
job. However, if you are concerned about its usefulness when
working on large files, you may be pleasantly surprised.

[[ and ]] (and similar; see :h [[) work pretty good for scooting around text.

For new vim users I can''t stress enough... read the manual. :help is your friend.

The coolest thing about vim is that you can select text (with v) and then copy, cut, delete, etc. just like you can do with words lines or paragraphs in vi.