looking for a new text editor that can make a date/timestamp

newbiesforever · 05-11-2013, 02:10 PM

Well, anyway, this works, though I'll have to get used to the unnecessary complexity (mostly regarding the menus) for what I'm doing (keeping a personal journal). Thank you, good people.

druuna · 05-11-2013, 02:21 PM

Glad to see you got it working!

BTW: I would try to get used to the short-cuts and not the menu's. Maybe one of these cheat sheets might come in handy:
- Printable vim cheat sheets

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Originally Posted by TobiSGD

if I have to work on a machine without Vim installed I watch myself writing :wq into a random text editor and wondering why nothing happens

That sounds very familiar.......

TobiSGD · 05-11-2013, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by newbiesforever

Well, anyway, this works, though I'll have to get used to the unnecessary complexity (mostly regarding the menus) for what I'm doing (keeping a personal journal). Thank you, good people.

Vim has indeed a somehwat steeper learning curve, but it is totally worth it. This may help to get a grasp what is possible with Vim and how you can make your life with it much easier:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki
http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Lin...vanced_vi.html
http://vimcasts.org/
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_toc.html

Shadow_7 · 05-11-2013, 02:55 PM

I mostly use nano, leafpad, bluefish, and anjuta for text editing. Although more for cliff note type things than anything meaningful or useful. If I need something pretty I'll use libreoffice. Although mostly to take a screen shot of a semi-fancy font to do something pretty in gimp on the quick for video needs. But I'm more likely to use povray for that type of stuff.

haertig · 05-11-2013, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by TobiSGD

...I watch myself writing :wq into a random text editor and wondering why nothing happens...

Yeah, me too. Or ZZ (more than one way to skin a cat).

They ought to make :wq into a smiley, so us VI users don't look so silly putting it into our forum posts. Then we could pretend we did it on purpose!

goumba · 05-12-2013, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by TobiSGD

if I have to work on a machine without Vim installed I watch myself writing :wq into a random text editor and wondering why nothing happens.

I know that feeling... only it's with Ctrl-X Ctrl-S.