Posted by: Administrator
on January 26, 2007 08:58 AM
Thanks for good reply, makes sense to hear opinions from someone who likes vim than people who want to flame back.
I see your point about horizontal split, it is quite roomy horizontally on a wide display and can have a good use for a diff.
As for themes, desert does look to be the most decent out of the horrible rest with 8 colors or some such. Yes I can make a custom one, but I'm tedius to learn that vim theme script when I'd rather start coding already on another editor. Besides, there could be better theme made by someone else by now... but I failed to find much good ones, leave out just a few.
And colors, as for PuTTY, I only recognized about how to turn on 256 colors, which was still a giant step forward from 8 colors or so, but if I see million color, soft looking theme usable from putty or from mac terminal or gnome-terminal etc, then I'd be surprised and happy.
25, that's same age as me. I only said it, because, for one, I never really found anyone around my age using vim seriously, and the way it behaves, sounded as if it is only for people from 1980's programmers. As for pressing ESC to get out of insert mode, the initial keyboard the vim dev used had ESC at where TAB is on modern keyboard, which is WAY easier to press. I nowadays press 'Ctrl+C' to get out of insert mode, because I hate reaching my finger off to the edge of keyboard. And these reasons make me thing, vim is stubborn about not trying to be modern. Good to see someone at this age using it and liking it.
Yes, I hate single platform application, as I like to use Mac personally, could use Windows from time to time, and use Unix for shell access, but rarely for gui, and it's rare to find app that I can always use at any place.
Portability rocks, I just need to find how to use it that is at least a bit less or near on par with my current environment or otherwise I do not feel for the switch obviously.
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Re:Why Vim?
Posted by: Administrator on January 26, 2007 08:58 AMI see your point about horizontal split, it is quite roomy horizontally on a wide display and can have a good use for a diff.
As for themes, desert does look to be the most decent out of the horrible rest with 8 colors or some such. Yes I can make a custom one, but I'm tedius to learn that vim theme script when I'd rather start coding already on another editor. Besides, there could be better theme made by someone else by now... but I failed to find much good ones, leave out just a few.
And colors, as for PuTTY, I only recognized about how to turn on 256 colors, which was still a giant step forward from 8 colors or so, but if I see million color, soft looking theme usable from putty or from mac terminal or gnome-terminal etc, then I'd be surprised and happy.
25, that's same age as me. I only said it, because, for one, I never really found anyone around my age using vim seriously, and the way it behaves, sounded as if it is only for people from 1980's programmers. As for pressing ESC to get out of insert mode, the initial keyboard the vim dev used had ESC at where TAB is on modern keyboard, which is WAY easier to press. I nowadays press 'Ctrl+C' to get out of insert mode, because I hate reaching my finger off to the edge of keyboard. And these reasons make me thing, vim is stubborn about not trying to be modern. Good to see someone at this age using it and liking it.
Yes, I hate single platform application, as I like to use Mac personally, could use Windows from time to time, and use Unix for shell access, but rarely for gui, and it's rare to find app that I can always use at any place.
Portability rocks, I just need to find how to use it that is at least a bit less or near on par with my current environment or otherwise I do not feel for the switch obviously.
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