Posted by: Administrator
on January 25, 2007 10:54 AM
Hmm, finally a good list of vim's good features.
But, the first argument can be done via a regular expression itself. Then again, I find it hard to use regular expression on vim on, say, 10 specific lines I choose from. I read it somewhere you have to tell the line numbers to execute the regular expression, while I can just drag my mouse over the lines where I want them to execute the regex on my editor and just Ctrl+h and run it instead, which is more intuitive and faster than checking out what the line numbers are.
Then the first 4 of the lists are possible by default on my Windows text editor (not notepad...) as for the rest I never felt the need, so never using it, but EmEditor had a macro scripting function in perl/php/ruby/js or some such languages last time I read about it not in just 'ex' line editing command we never use day to day.
The list is endless, I know, and how you can customize vim is also endless, I know, but the complexity of it is also endless, making me rather not use it anyway.
I just find it, until you customize vim so it doesn't even look like vim anymore to your best taste, it only has features that is capable in Windows text editors but with uglier(= harder to use) desgin.
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Re:Why Vim?
Posted by: Administrator on January 25, 2007 10:54 AMBut, the first argument can be done via a regular expression itself. Then again, I find it hard to use regular expression on vim on, say, 10 specific lines I choose from. I read it somewhere you have to tell the line numbers to execute the regular expression, while I can just drag my mouse over the lines where I want them to execute the regex on my editor and just Ctrl+h and run it instead, which is more intuitive and faster than checking out what the line numbers are.
Then the first 4 of the lists are possible by default on my Windows text editor (not notepad...) as for the rest I never felt the need, so never using it, but EmEditor had a macro scripting function in perl/php/ruby/js or some such languages last time I read about it not in just 'ex' line editing command we never use day to day.
The list is endless, I know, and how you can customize vim is also endless, I know, but the complexity of it is also endless, making me rather not use it anyway.
I just find it, until you customize vim so it doesn't even look like vim anymore to your best taste, it only has features that is capable in Windows text editors but with uglier(= harder to use) desgin.
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