You know, for several years I was one of those people who simply ignored posts like this about Vi/Vim because I happened to come across it once on a sparc machine and thought it was ridiculous that I couldn't figure out how to type a simple note. I thought that Vi (Vim) was some kind of weird and ancient legacy program that just never caught up with the times.
About 3 or 4 months ago, I had a truly large amount of ascii text editing and formatting to do and in a plea for advice, I got the standard cliche replies to try "Vim". Having nothing to lose, I gave it a shot. It took only about two weeks before I was competent, but it was probably the greatest time investment I have ever made. I now use Vim for any text editing purpose, and especially python coding. No doubt, the majority of people who read your post will instantly ignore it - but I know from personal experience that it would take a very special IDE to compete with Vim for the manipulation of text (GUI design, of course, is another story altogether). regards Caleb On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 18:57:51 +0200, projecktzero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VIM or Emacs. I use VIM on Windows, Mac, and VMS. I'd consider it more > of an editor than an IDE, but there are many IDE features available > with plug ins. > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
