My colleague in USA was a "brief" fanatic software developer.. I never listened to his recommendation though, otherwise I would have been watching Trump impeachment (after first watching / following closely) trials...
What a lucky day to live one more day before arriving in December... :-) UnPLUGed for Life ... Clean Air, Bright Sunshine & Good bit of Rain... On 25 Nov 2019, 10:53 AM, at 10:53 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa....@gmail.com> wrote: >After many years of usage, I stopped using CLI quite some time back. >But >still use vi kind of editors a few times. This reminds me of the best >editor I ever used -- BRIEF . Just checked that Wikipedia page and >found >that few things in vim come from brief !! Just check the features in it >that are even today very useful and innovative!! And those were >available >in the eighties on a dos environment!! > >Check out the wiki page here: > >https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_(text_editor) > >Regards >Sudhanwa > >On Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 9:02 AM Tejas Sanap <sanap.te...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> Hey, folks! >> >> As the world rides the "VS Code" wave and it's extensive list of >> extensions that are easy to set up and even easier to configure, some >of >> us, stick to the Old Way of Vim. However, as effective as vi/vim may >be, it >> presents a considerable learning curve, especially, to the novice >command >> line user, it just seems too much to handle all at once and thus, >they >> either move to "nano" or abandon command line text editors, >altogether. >> >> But, the vim community, offers great documentation and there are tons >of >> blogs written by vim-users, all over the internet. Captain Pike, from >the >> USS Enterprise, once said, "the best way to swim in a cold stream, is >to >> jump right in", and it is also true in the case of vim. >> >> Using vim for all your editing tasks, is the fastest way to learn and >the >> easiest way to appreciate vim. >> >> The best source of vim-related things is the "r/vim"[3] sub-reddit. >> >> The best place to clarify your vim doubts, is the #vim IRC channel. >> >> The best collection of vim-hacks for the most common issues realated >to >> vim is, the vim-wikia[4]. >> >> The most accurate, detailed and dependable source of information for >any >> vim feature is the "in-built" documentation[5]. >> >> The links [1] and [2] are good beginner resources. >> >> [1]: https://kadekillary.work/post/learn-vim/ >> >> [2]: http://vimcasts.org/ >> >> [3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/ >> >> [4]: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/ >> >> [5]: https://www.vim.org/docs.php >> >> -- >> Tejas Sanap. >> (whereistejas on Freenode) >> https://whereistejas.me >> _______________________________________________ >> plug-mail mailing list >> plug-mail@plug.org.in >> http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail >> > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >plug-mail mailing list >plug-mail@plug.org.in >http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail _______________________________________________ plug-mail mailing list plug-mail@plug.org.in http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail
