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Closed 9 years ago.
Another question asked why there are so few non-vi modal editors. A few of the comments in that question mentioned other modal editors in passing, but I think that it would be useful to develop a more comprehensive list. Searching for this information on Google is difficult, as vim-related information tends to drown out everything else.
A few items to get things rolling:
Divascheme (From the previously mentioned question)
Ed (According to this)
There have been many Non-vi modal editors over the years. Many of them tied to a single operating system.
WordStar, edlin, and ISPF come to mind. Also EDIT from the HDOS system. There are probably at least a dozen others named EDIT or it's variants.
I've never tried it, but AFAIK Emacs has a plugin to emulate vi's modal editing.
Elvis is one of these editors.
Also, nvi could count as one.
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Closed 10 years ago.
As a programming novice, I often run into trouble when trying to install packages, use virtualenv, and basically do anything even mildly complex using the command line.
What are some good references out there to help me UNDERSTAND things like my path, environment, shell scripts, etc?
Basically, I'm tired of copying and pasting. I want to really understand what's going on.
Thanks!
I used Linux in a Nutshell by O'Reilly. It helps you get past the initial beginners stage. Obviously there are a ton more links and tutorials, lists of keystrokes online, easily found with a Google search, but this will help you get going, and nice to read when you are on the bus or at lunch or whatever, to give you some ideas you might not just happen on in normal everyday life.
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Closed 10 years ago.
This is a genuine question, not intended to start a flame war.
I've used Vim for over 10 years; watching people use Emacs/Slime ... has made me decide to learn Emacs/Slime.
I want to get up to speed as fast as quickly:
there are a bunch of "finger macros" I instinctively do -- I want to figure out the equivalent in Emacs/Slime & retrain myself
Since I'm familiar with Clojure, writing elisp config won't be a problem (minus the dynamic vars sometimes)
What should I be reading / memorizing?
EDIT: note, I have tried VimClojure, and decided I like Slime/Swank more.
When I learn a new editor (or tool of any kind), the moment I don't know how to do something (e.g. Save a File), I google up the answer, then do it, 3x over.
In Emacs, save a file is C-x C-s. Every time you cannot remember what it is, do it three times. It'll become second nature VERY quickly.
Never "cheat" because you're in a rush, or feeling lazy. Research each command as you need it, and repeat it until it becomes a "finger macro".
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Closed 11 years ago.
I know there is some vim plugins that implements TextMate-like snippets feature. The popular are: snipMate, snippetsEmu, neocomplcache, UltiSnips and xptemplate.
What is the best and why? Consider using this with others plugins like SuperTab, AutoComplPop and pathogen. Have you ever tried those plugins? What do you prefer?
As with many things, you'll find that personal preference wins out at the end of the day. Personally, I prefer snippentsEmu for one reason: it supports dynamic snippets. For example a Python formatting string "foo %s %s" will (can) dynamically add a placeholder for each %s.
snippetsEmu is certainly not perfect - I have come across a few bugs and annoyances - but it works well with superTab. I honestly don't have much experience with the other plug-ins mentioned (although I believe I've tried them all), so I can't really give a fair comparison.
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Closed 12 years ago.
I had to see what all the fuss was about Vim so tried it out for a little while; built a whole site in it. In the end I decided I was less productive.
So my question is: is Vim really that good or is it just one of those ultra-nerdy things people want to use so they can say: "I use Vim". Vim seems a little cumbersome to me. I know it's supposed to be lean but I think the years development and the mass of contributes has left it untidy. Am I wrong? Should I stick it out with Vim? What are the advantages of Vim?
How I learn to stop worrying and love VIM
Hope this helps.
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Closed 11 years ago.
Vimcasts is fantastic, and I want more educational, vim-related feeds and podcasts but am having trouble finding any more quality ones. There must be more out there.
Are there other vim-related XML feeds and podcasts?
Derek Wyatt's blog is a great resource also.
Vim on Reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/vim/
I just discovered a few good ones here: http://lococast.net/?s=vim
I've subscribed to the vim official scripts page RSS :
http://www.vim.org/scripts/index.php
But the best source for me these last weeks have been SO ;-)
I discover a lot of interesting articles via the #vim hashtag on Twitter:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23vim
There's a lot of noise and duplication, but it's easy to skip over that and get to the good stuff.