Vim the best editor

I use Vim the most powerful text editor on earth. the power of vim is
that it is modal witch means that most commands you can type wile touch
typing. it is the most powerful editor on earth VI FOREVER. VI FOREVER

atbusbook@aol.com writes:

> I use Vim the most powerful text editor on earth. the power of vim
> is that it is modal witch means that most commands you can type wile
> touch typing. it is the most powerful editor on earth VI FOREVER. VI
> FOREVER

Shame about that spell-checker, though but.

Des

atbusbook@aol.com writes:
> I use Vim the most powerful text editor on earth. the power of vim is
> that it is modal witch means that most commands you can type wile touch
> typing. it is the most powerful editor on earth VI FOREVER. VI FOREVER

Is that vim's auto-troll module?

-miles
--
Occam's razor split hairs so well, I bought the whole argument!

<atbusbook@aol.com> wrote:

> I use Vim the most powerful text editor on earth. the power of vim is
> that it is modal witch means that most commands you can type wile touch
> typing. it is the most powerful editor on earth VI FOREVER. VI FOREVER

I just opened it. It seems to be nothing but vi - an editor based on the
first typewriter editor: ed.

I'll stick with emacs ...
--
Per Erik Rønne
http://www.RQNNE.dk

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> atbusbook@aol.com writes:
> > I use Vim the most powerful text editor on earth. the power of vim is
> > that it is modal witch means that most commands you can type wile touch
> > typing. it is the most powerful editor on earth VI FOREVER. VI FOREVER
>
> Is that vim's auto-troll module?
>

Silly vi users and their modal witches...

Gregm

> I use Vim the most powerful text editor on earth.

Except for Sudden View...

OK. To get literal, neither has a power rating in watts.

And without that, it just gets subjective.


Sudden Disruption

Sudden View...
the radical option for editing text


Beta test now in progress...
http://www.sudden.net/
http://www.sudden.net/blog/

What?

No one wants to challenge this bullshit?

What happened to all the VIM defenders? EMACS freaks? TECO geeks?

If you want something done right, I guess you just have to do it
yourself.

> Sudden Disruption wrote:

> OK. To get literal, neither has a power rating in watts.

What's literal have to do with it? Everyone knows that real "power" in
an editor is when it does what you want done to the text without having
to think about it. This comes from having a sharp and effective tool
that you've learned well enough you can forget about HOW it works and
simply focus on your content and how you want to change it.

> And without that, it just gets subjective.

More psycho-bable. Sure, we all have opinions, but it's also true that
some editors ARE objectively better than others. At least for certain
tasks. None is perfect for every job, but some are of little use for
any.

No, I won't name names.

I'm being nice tonight.



Sudden Disruption

Sudden View...
the radical option for editing text


Beta test now in progress...
http://www.sudden.net/
http://www.sudden.net/blog/

Per Rønne wrote:
> <atbusbook@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > I use Vim the most powerful text editor on earth. the power of vim is
> > that it is modal witch means that most commands you can type wile touch
> > typing. it is the most powerful editor on earth VI FOREVER. VI FOREVER
>
> I just opened it. It seems to be nothing but vi - an editor based on the
> first typewriter editor: ed.

Then you missed an important difference:

-----
tippe :q<Enter> zum Beenden
tippe :help<Enter> oder <F1> für Online Hilfe
-----

Believe me, when vi was still default option it almost drove me insane.
More then one I had to use the following keysequence to end vi:
<C-A-F2> userid<CR> password<CR> killall vi<CR>. My "Linux in a
Nutshell" has just one line marked with a highlighter.

That vim greets you with the option on how to end it and how to start
the online help is a real killer feature. And it even does it in my own
language.

Point is that while vim looks like a vi it has a lot more function then
to old vi including a gui - you did use gvim to start the editor,
didn't you?

> I'll stick with emacs ...

Well I tried emacs and spend half a day with the emas configurations
files to change an option that vim can change with just one line in the
..gvimrc:

:set guifont=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1

Since I allready at (R:4.75 L:4.5) it is - for me personaly - the most
important option in any text editor. And the very first to change -
after all I don't want to get blind reading the configuration files.
Problem with emacs was not that you can't change the gui font. Problem
was that there are literaly hundreds of different fonts to change all
connected in some very deep inheritance hierachie. I spend hours
changeing font settings allways on the lookout for that master/root
font - never found it.

Martin

Damm - didn't see the cross post until it was to late. Better get my
flame proove suit on now...

Martin

"krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

Hi Martin,

> :set guifont=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1

With emacs you could have set

,----
| Emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1
`----

in your ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources, see:

,----[ (info "(emacs)Table of Resources") ]
| D.2 Table of X Resources for Emacs
| ==================================
|
| This table lists the resource names that designate options for Emacs,
| not counting those for the appearance of the menu bar, each with the
| class that it belongs to:
|
| [...]
|
| `font' (class `Font')
| Font name for text (or fontset name, *note Fontsets:.
`----

Kind regards,
Tassilo

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