VI iMproved

MrJoshua · 08-23-2002, 10:17 AM

I have heard people bash (no pun intended) this little kool program but I love it. There is nothing better than opening a conf file in the terminal window. I was just wondering what the people that don't like VIM use?

jglen490 · 08-23-2002, 10:26 AM

In console or command line, jed. In GUI, xjed or kate, sometimes kwrite.

neo77777 · 08-23-2002, 10:46 AM

oh, come on you are about to start another bitten to death flame war of which editor is better. I love vi for editing, I love emacs for programming (compiling, debugging), I hate ed, but I must know at least how to edit a file using it.

MasterC · 08-24-2002, 12:07 AM

Uh oh, hope my contribution doesn't contribute to the "Bitten Death Flame War!" that will soon erupt.

Pico

But I do have a quickie q. What is the difference between Vi and VIM?

Thanks

neo77777 · 08-24-2002, 12:58 AM

Vim is iMproved Vi, there are some improvements like you are able to use arrow keys to navigate through a file, in original vi you had to use h,j,k,l keys to do so, and there are some others, let me look it over.

neo77777 · 08-24-2002, 01:06 AM

Man,I just lost all my bookmarks, damn, I am slappy, time to sleep.
Damn, my writing linux drivers book, linux cook book, virus-writing howto, everything is down the drain now, damn, damn, damn.

P.S. And VIM is Vi iMproved, not iMproved Vi

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MasterC · 08-24-2002, 02:32 AM

Cool, thanks alot! The hjkl keys to move around, what a drag!

Again, thanks!

rverlander · 08-24-2002, 02:46 AM

Pico=Better than ViM