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Re: Two weeks with Vim

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Post by Supermighty »

I love VIM. It's my go to editor for everything. And as much as I love it I hate to admit that I was more productive using Eclipse when it came to a large-ish web project.

I tried using gVIM tabs, an buffers, and minibufexplorer, and Project, and ctags. Either I was doing it wrong or they just didn't want to work how I thought and worked.

So I'll lust after VIM and use it when I can, but I'll default to Eclipse when it comes time to work with a project set.

Re: Two weeks with Vim

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Post by weaksauce »

olalonde wrote: post #2

> I was more of an Emacs person Are there really any benefit of switching from Emacs to Vim? I was under the impression that both editors were pretty much interchangeable.

vim is more of a text editor that emphasizes a minimum of keystrokes to do things efficiently. Emacs is a text editor that is leans more to the IDE side of the spectrum with many cool extensions that make your life easier.(I am not saying vim doesn't have extensions just that emacs seems to use them more or has more of an emphasis to them) Both are excellent text editors. one will fit your style of living. use that one.

Re: Two weeks with Vim

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Post by kleevr »

Supermighty wrote: post #11

I love VIM. It's my go to editor for everything. And as much as I love it I hate to admit that I was more productive using Eclipse when it came to a large-ish web project. I tried using gVIM tabs, an buffers, and minibufexplorer, and Project, and ctags. Either I was doing it wrong or they just didn't want to work how I thought and worked. So I'll lust after VIM and use it when I can, but I'll default to Eclipse when…

I'm running Ubuntu on my development machine, and I really enjoy VIM keybindings. I had a lot of trouble getting the key bindings to work in Eclipse, but jVi worked like a charm in NetBeans for me. (Needed a rich IDE for some Magento dev. Sometimes to make a 2-line change properly in the core involves making 3 dirs, 2 XML files, 1 php file. le sigh)

Re: Two weeks with Vim

#14

Post by jjcm »

The man throws out an excellent plug in the article: vimcasts (http://vimcasts.org). Drew Neil (the man who creates/narrates them) does an excellent job of explaining not only the basics of vim, but also the intricacies of it as well. I consider myself a fairly seasoned vim user, but even I picked up a few tricks from his vimcasts. Try them out.

Re: Two weeks with Vim

#15

Post by FraaJad »

weaksauce wrote: post #12
olalonde wrote: post #2

> I was more of an Emacs person Are there really any benefit of switching from Emacs to Vim? I was under the impression that both editors were pretty much interchangeable.

vim is more of a text editor that emphasizes a minimum of keystrokes to do things efficiently. Emacs is a text editor that is leans more to the IDE side of the spectrum with many cool extensions that make your life easier.(I am not saying vim doesn't have extensions just that emacs seems to use them more or has more of an emphasis to them) Both are excellent text editors. one will fit your style of living. use that o…

Someone said on Stack overflow, "I use Vim for manipulating text, Emacs to do programming and Firefox to look at funny cat pictures". I agree with that assessment.

Re: Two weeks with Vim

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Post by apinstein »

I just got TM-style command-T working on my vim setup thanks to wincent, it is a nice implementation: http://wincent.com/products/command-t

It was really one of the only things about TM that made me jealous :)

Also it taught me about which I'd never even heard of before! Great way to keep your personal commands namespaced from stock vim.

Re: Two weeks with Vim

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Post by [deleted] »

olalonde wrote: post #2

> I was more of an Emacs person Are there really any benefit of switching from Emacs to Vim? I was under the impression that both editors were pretty much interchangeable.

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Re: Two weeks with Vim

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Post by [deleted] »

olalonde wrote: post #2

> I was more of an Emacs person Are there really any benefit of switching from Emacs to Vim? I was under the impression that both editors were pretty much interchangeable.

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Re: Two weeks with Vim

#19

Post by jhrobert »

akkartik wrote: post #10
jhrobert wrote: post #3

I am a wordstar guy, I started with CP/M... For years I enjoyed Borland products, they used Wordstar key bindings. And then one day it stopped working. I simply had to use the mouse. I was shocked. It took me years to recover. I hated it. Call me a masochist, a few years ago I tried Emacs, it was the only editor with syntax enlighting for Ruby at the time. Except it was not working, or at least it was not working for…

Upvoted because it's in interesting idea. But man, you're crazy :)

Are you sure that "But" is the right word?

Thanks for the compliment anyway. :)

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