<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div>vim</div><div><br></div>I'm similar. I began using vi coding on Wyse or Link terminals and <div>the flow control never worked. You couldn't just hold an arrow key </div><div>down or the terminal would get completely hosed up. So I was forced</div><div>to learn and use all the vi movements, like w for next word and $ for </div><div>end of line, and eventually more complicated ones. They became</div><div>muscle memory and now I can edit much faster in vim usually.</div><div><br></div><div>Occasionally I'll use Netbeans when I'm doing GUI development</div><div>or some of it's handy refactoring tools, but I still use vim. The trick</div><div>I think is getting past the basic learning curve--it's a horrible editor</div><div>when you only use the arrow keys, insert, and backspace, which I've</div><div>seen some sysadmins & programmers do in the past. </div><div><br></div><div>Scott<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Jim Lynch" <ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, October 22, 2013 6:28:54 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Survey -- preferred Text Editor<br><br>On 10/21/2013 03:10 PM, Jonathan Meek wrote:<br>> Now to really start the holy wars of all holy wars since we got the <br>> preferred distro, desktop, and browser.<br>><br>> What's everyone preferred text editor?<br>I've been using vi and it's relatives for so long that I find any other <br>editor cumbersom. I use an editor for programming mostly and the <br>ability to quickly delete or duplicate lines and place them somewhere <br>else via the keyboard beats a GUI everytime, IMO. There are so many <br>things like the yank (yf. yank all characters up to and including the <br>period on one line) substitute (:%s/off/on/g substitute the word on for <br>off everwhere) the period to repeat the last command. All of that <br>without taking my hands from the keyboard. Combine that with a gui in <br>gvim and the world is your pearl! My life would be complete if someone <br>would combine the best of geary and vim.<br><br>I learned vi many years ago when some version of it was on every system <br>I worked on, that had a command line, that is. I never found it on VM <br>or MVS but I wouldn't doubt someone had ported it.<br><br>Jim.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo<br></div><br></div></div></body></html>