Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 25, 2007 08:44 PM
vim requires you to read the doc. on gui editors not only its a bit more simple (because you "see" commands) but also you used it all your life, so no need to relearn.
Of course, the best editor is the one that fitsYOU
I personally use them all but i'm happy when i got vim. Once you've been using it for a while, typing commands is so much faster.
While you hit ctrl+h then enable/disable regexp or click in the right field (or use tab key), etc to finally do your search and replace, i probably typed a one liner that achieve the same result and maybe in 15 diff tabs. Of course, for whoever never used vim it looks like I typed a alien-impossible-to-decipher command, while I didn't even think about it.
That's just because, yeah, you do need to learn it.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 25, 2007 08:44 PMon gui editors not only its a bit more simple (because you "see" commands) but also you used it all your life, so no need to relearn.
Of course, the best editor is the one that fits YOU
I personally use them all but i'm happy when i got vim. Once you've been using it for a while, typing commands is so much faster.
While you hit ctrl+h then enable/disable regexp or click in the right field (or use tab key), etc to finally do your search and replace, i probably typed a one liner that achieve the same result and maybe in 15 diff tabs.
Of course, for whoever never used vim it looks like I typed a alien-impossible-to-decipher command, while I didn't even think about it.
That's just because, yeah, you do need to learn it.
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