Subject: Re: Software suggestions
From: Keary Suska (hierophant@pcisys.net)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2034 - 21:20:47 MST
on 2/1/02 10:45 PM, dwright5@nyc.rr.com purportedly said:
> Keary,
>
> My experience with editors in *NIX is vi, (or vim) which i must say
> isn't exactly intuitive, but once familiar with it, is really fun and
> fast and efficient. As far as FTP support, i often just use the shell,
> since i'm already in it for vi. I want to start using SSH. vi does have
> great finding/searching/replacing capabilities. I must say that i used
> vi before i ever used BBEdit and was disappointed with BBEdit because i
> thought it wasn't nearly as fast, functional or useful as vi (i felt
> that that way with all editors after vi - including textpad on PC) of
> course in time i grew to really love BBEdit (and textpad) but i have
> been really happy to be able to return to vi again and it's one of the
> reasons i wanted to run linux. (with vi your fingers never have to
> leave the keyboard or move that far to do anything, no mouse delays, for
> a touch typist that's indispensible) For development and programming,
> scripting i think this is thee platform and editor of choice. ah, but
> i'm still just a learning, developing perl hacker trying to learn c. I'm
> sure there are plenty of bonafide top noch programmers hereabouts to set
> the record straight.
Vi (more properly, VIM) is my line based editor of choice, but I have never
been able t negotiate a document in vim as quickly as any GUI editor. I
have also had no luck with decent regex search and replace. Every time I try
I get a "pattern not found" error, but I can just find with the pattern
without difficulty. I have double-checked the syntax according to my book,
but no dice.
Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
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