[ale] Survey -- preferred Text Editor

[Boris Borisov]

whatever is on console. help pages really help :)


On 10/23/13, Scott Plante <splante at insightsys.com> wrote:
>
> vim
>
> I'm similar. I began using vi coding on Wyse or Link terminals and
> the flow control never worked. You couldn't just hold an arrow key
> down or the terminal would get completely hosed up. So I was forced
> to learn and use all the vi movements, like w for next word and $ for
> end of line, and eventually more complicated ones. They became
> muscle memory and now I can edit much faster in vim usually.
>
>
> Occasionally I'll use Netbeans when I'm doing GUI development
> or some of it's handy refactoring tools, but I still use vim. The trick
> I think is getting past the basic learning curve--it's a horrible editor
> when you only use the arrow keys, insert, and backspace, which I've
> seen some sysadmins & programmers do in the past.
>
>
> Scott
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Jim Lynch" <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 6:28:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] Survey -- preferred Text Editor
>
> On 10/21/2013 03:10 PM, Jonathan Meek wrote:
>> Now to really start the holy wars of all holy wars since we got the
>> preferred distro, desktop, and browser.
>>
>> What's everyone preferred text editor?
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Jim.
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