[REBOL] Re: vim again
From: g:santilli:tiscalinet:it at: 27-Nov-2003 17:11
Hi Maxim,
On Thursday, November 27, 2003, 4:47:23 PM, you wrote:
MOA> why would you want to use vi style of cryptic text
MOA> editing in the year 2003? is it just out of habit of using
MOA> vi in the past?
Because it is much better? ;-)
Actually, VIM is much, much more than VI.
MOA> maybe its just the version of vim which installed
MOA> itself, which just looked like a shell with vi loaded... did
MOA> I miss out on something... there where no menue , no point
MOA> and click features that I noticed...
GVIM has menus etc., but I almost never use it. With the keyboard
it's so much faster...
MOA> I work in ultra edit and man, I don't see how I could
MOA> code faster (within a text editor)!
If I had to go to something different than VIM, I'd use ION.pe. At
least it's fully integrated with REBOL.
Regards,
Gabriele.
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