[brlug-general] Faster than gedit

[Joe Fruchey]

Copying/cutting/pasting?? Don't you mean yanking/deleting/putting? =)

fwiw, I *just* learned that from the aforementioned "chapter" on vi.

On 2/2/07, -ray <ray at ops.selu.edu> wrote:
>
> 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?/
>
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