I have to agree completely with this poster. I started learning VIM 3 years ago when my employer insisted that I use a windows workstation. I hated it so much that I decided to live in a full screen PuTTY, SSHed to their Linux and FreeBSD servers. I decided that what ever new editor I learned would be the last editor I ever learned. The fact that VIM in on every single server I've ever seen was very attractive. It took a few months to get my .vimrc setup to where I liked it and to learn the main functionality. (I plastered my cubical in cheat sheets.) I then discovered that after 25 years of typing wrong, it was time to learn to touch type. I took sandpaper to my keyboard, and after the most frustrated 2 weeks of my life, I was an expert.
The best thing is that I know all I have to do is scp my .vimrc file into my home folder on any server and I can edit files there just as comfortably as I would locally. The cool thing is that I NEVER use ftp, scp, or rsync to send files to a dev server that I edited locally. I edit them on the server. Combine remote editing with Gnu Screen, and you have the ability to start editing a file from you office. Then open the Screen session from home or a coworkers machine and see everything exactly as you left it. Oh, and you will never again say "dang, I forgot to nohup that process." SSH + Gnu Screen + VIM = Happy Productive Programmer On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Mark Clarkson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tero, > Vim is great for this but has a steep learning curve. Vim is also tuned for > touch typists, which eventually pushed me into learning touch typing, which > is great, especially for night time coding. One really simple and often > overlooked feature is being able to view source code in two columns, which > is something I've never seen in graphical IDEs - for this reason I always > make my code fit into 80 cols and have 4 character tabs. Ctags and Cscope > are supported natively so jumping to functions/definitions is easy. > Syntax highlighting is good, it now has a form of 'intellisense' and > tabs in version 7, plus excellent regular expression search/replace, > multi-branch undo, keystroke recording (I use alot) and a great diff > viewer (invoked with vimdiff usually). It also does the things you > mentioned! > > Cheers > Mark. > > > On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:00:27 +0300, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > I am looking for shell program for source code edition. I have used > > nano, but it isn't enough. I need more "real" IDE like functionalities > > eg constant view of current row number, file browser and selection, > > cutting, pasting and copying functions. I also tried to use motor, but I > > got segmentation fault after execution... :-/ I am using Etch. > > > > > > Tero Mäntyvaara > > > > > > > > -- .!# RichardBronosky #!.
