(Since this is already an editor war...) On 23 August 2014 10:41, Christian Gollwitzer <aurio...@gmx.de> wrote: > Sometimes I impress my colleagues with what they call "magic", i.e. creating > special repeated lists of numbers by a few keystrokes in gvim, and that has > triggered the request from them to learn a bit of (g)vim.
I have yet to be truly impressed by Vim, in that Sublime Text with a few extensions seems to do the same things just as easily. I find that Vim and Emacs users consistently underrate the powers of these editors, presumably because they've never put nearly as much effort into them as they have into their Vim or Emacs. For example, to make a numbered list in (my) Sublime Text (fully custom shortcuts ahead): Alt-1 Alt-0 Alt-0 to repeat the next command 100 times Enter to insert 100 new lines, so 101 in total Ctrl-A to select all text (can be done more fancily, but keep this simple for now) Ctrl-l to select lines (creates multiple selections), ignoring the blank end of selection $: to write some text Ctrl-Shift-Home to select to beginning of line Ctrl-e to replace $ with consecutive numbers (also supports using Python's {} with all of its formatting options) With an increment function and macros: 1: to write some text Ctrl-q to start macro recording Ctrl-d to duplicate line (and select it) Left to go to start of selection INCREMENT to increment number (emulated by evaluating "1+number" with Python [1, +, Ctrl-left, Shift-Home, Ctrl-Shift-e]) Ctrl-q to finish macro recording Alt-1 Alt-0 Alt-0 to repeat the next command 100 times Ctrl-Shift-q to repeat macro Compare with Vim: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4224410/macro-for-making-numbered-lists-in-vim -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list