see inline comments > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Tremblay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 12:24 PM > To: begin begin > Subject: Re: Perl IDE's v. Perl Editors was Re: Editor > > > I'm surprised that more posters didn't advocate vim as *the* editor. > I think it is linux world that did a survey and found that 80 > percent of > the users picked vim as their favorite editor. > > I originally started using vim, then switched to nedit, and now have > switched back to vim. Nedit if very nice, but I had problems with > keyboard commands. About half the time when I would press keys like > <cntrl> z to undo a command, I would get a "^ack" or > something like that > on the screen.
that's been fixed on the new release. > > I can see why vim is the most popular linux editor. It is extremelly > powerful. It has all sorts of options for automatic inenting, > as well as > a feature called folding, which I still have to learn how to use; it > bascially hides lines on your screen. So if you were working between > your main program and a subroutine 1000 lines below, you could hide > those thousand lines. Of course, vim as full highlighting > capabilities. > Vim offers so many options that I doubt I could learn them all. nedit too, and the help docs are much better now, vim docs weren't that great. IMHO. > > The drawback to vim is that it is a bit hard to learn at first. It is > keyboard driven, which goes against how most people learn to operate > a computer, with a mouse. Of course, there is full graphical interface Ack, love the keyboard, hate the mouse. > version of vim, which I use, called gvim. Once you get over > the initial > difficulty of learning vim (which should only take a few > days?), then it > can be easier to use, depending on your preferences. > > Vim is also one hundred percent free--as is Nedit. I wouldn't > pay for an > editor, with all the excellent free choices out there. > Agreed. > But nedit is also a good choice as an editor. It is very > intuitive and also > powerful. And easy to learn. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- The views and opinions expressed in this email message are the sender's own, and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Summit Systems Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
