Scott David Daniels wrote: > To paraphrase someone else (their identity lost in my mental fog) about > learning VI: > "The two weeks you'll spend hating vi (or vim) as you learn it will > be repaid in another month, ad the rest is pure profit."
Time and again I hear this (no shortage of Vim fans, same with Emacs), and I know I should know better but always believe them yet again. Invariably I download Vim play with it for an hour, get increasingly frustrated and give up. Most likely I'm greatly spoiled by using EditPlus (Windows only), it just makes it so easy to do the basic programming tasks that I need, everywhere else I turn I see far more functionality but at the price of not being able to do basic tasks as efficiently as I need them. Say I want to be able to execute the python program I'm currently editing. Nothing simpler in EditPlus, Tools->Configure Tools->Add Tool then specify which program you want to run, what parameters it takes and whether to capture the output or not ... total time it took me first time I wanted to do this ... about 3 minutes ... from now on pressing Ctrl-1 while editing the source will execute the python on the current source *and* it displays the output in a lower pane as it runs *and* it allows me to simultanously edit the file *while* the program is running. Outstanding. Yet after searching and reading stuff for more than an hour I was unable to accomplish the same thing in Vim though I'm already familiar enough with basic editing and setup (through my previous trials and tribulations) ... I have a few solutions that end up doing something similar but are quite a few keypresses longer both to invoke or to get back to the source that I'm writing, or I lose editing control while the program is running ... etc... So if the OP is on windows just head over and get EditPlus (UltraEdit and TextPad seem to be similar), and just accept the fact that you are already using an editor that as good as an editor can get ... I know I'd pay that registration once again for an editor that works the same way on Linux... i. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
