[brlug-general] Faster than gedit

[-ray]

If you're ever stuck in single user mode on a busted Solaris/AIX/HPUX 
system, then vi is good to know. :)

I use vi (really vim) cause it's powerful.  Stuff like 
copying/cutting/pasting by letters, words, or lines.  change word instead 
of having to backspace over it first.  Regular expression search and 
replace.  Visual block editing when you have column formatted text.

For GUI though, i'll sometimes use kate in KDE.  It's probably the fastest 
GUI editor, albeit still a bit quirky.

Surprised no one mentioned gvim :)

ray


On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Joe Fruchey wrote:

> Thank you, Michael. All the uber*-geeks are so condescending unless
> you live in vi, or to a lesser extent, emacs. I'm reading O'Reilly's
> _Fedora_Linux_ right now, and it has an entire chapter (okay, maybe
> just a big section of one) devoted to vi. I'm thinking, /who wants to
> learn vi?/