<p dir="ltr">I've become addicted to vim and colorized code. It's a quick check on missing parentheses and the like and is standard (until fedora 19 - wtf?! must load after distro loads.) in fedora/rhel distros.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 22, 2013 6:30 PM, "Jim Lynch" <<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 10/21/2013 03:10 PM, Jonathan Meek wrote:<br>
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Now to really start the holy wars of all holy wars since we got the preferred distro, desktop, and browser.<br>
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What's everyone preferred text editor?<br>
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I've been using vi and it's relatives for so long that I find any other editor cumbersom. I use an editor for programming mostly and the ability to quickly delete or duplicate lines and place them somewhere else via the keyboard beats a GUI everytime, IMO. There are so many things like the yank (yf. yank all characters up to and including the period on one line) substitute (:%s/off/on/g substitute the word on for off everwhere) the period to repeat the last command. All of that without taking my hands from the keyboard. Combine that with a gui in gvim and the world is your pearl! My life would be complete if someone would combine the best of geary and vim.<br>
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I learned vi many years ago when some version of it was on every system I worked on, that had a command line, that is. I never found it on VM or MVS but I wouldn't doubt someone had ported it.<br>
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Jim.<br>
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