Posted by: Administrator
on January 25, 2007 10:31 AM
You are just talking about the regular expression replace, which is way possible in many many Windows editors... I didn't say I use wordpad to do my coding... I use EmEditor personally but there's also EditPlus, WordPad2, UltraPad and I left out a few dozen more featureful text editors on Windows that can do it.
You just bracket the numbers... do the substitution, no problem, but unlike Vim, when you want to type in '/', you don't have to escape it and you can even turn on/off regular expression replace, so you don't have to worry about special characters when you feel like using plain text replace.
So, nothing sounds better at this part.
And to add some, until you read through vim documentation thoroughly, you have no idea how to use vim, which puts me (and plenty other people) away fast too. I don't even know if it's possible to turn off regular expression on search and replace in vim, so I don't have to keep escaping dots when I don't want it to match anything. And not only you have to read the doc, you have to actually remember the commands (ie : tabm, tabf inven*, showtabline or was it tabshowline??? very confusing and honestly I don't have enough memory to remember 100 vim commands while actually using my brain on the coding part and trying to figure out my memory what the command it was to go through my tabs), instead of just the shortcuts (although it seems you can define them yourself by editing yet another hard to figure out config file)
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Re:Why Vim? (im the parent poster of the topic)
Posted by: Administrator on January 25, 2007 10:31 AMYou just bracket the numbers... do the substitution, no problem, but unlike Vim, when you want to type in '/', you don't have to escape it and you can even turn on/off regular expression replace, so you don't have to worry about special characters when you feel like using plain text replace.
So, nothing sounds better at this part.
And to add some, until you read through vim documentation thoroughly, you have no idea how to use vim, which puts me (and plenty other people) away fast too. I don't even know if it's possible to turn off regular expression on search and replace in vim, so I don't have to keep escaping dots when I don't want it to match anything. And not only you have to read the doc, you have to actually remember the commands (ie : tabm, tabf inven*, showtabline or was it tabshowline??? very confusing and honestly I don't have enough memory to remember 100 vim commands while actually using my brain on the coding part and trying to figure out my memory what the command it was to go through my tabs), instead of just the shortcuts (although it seems you can define them yourself by editing yet another hard to figure out config file)
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