[mythtv-users] OFF TOPIC: Text Editor(s) ?

Stephen P. Villano stephen.p.villano at gmail.com
Fri Nov 15 06:04:10 UTC 2013


On 11/14/13 9:40 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 11/14/2013 05:10 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Leif Pihl wrote:
>>> What Text Editor do you think is "the best" (by what ever definition
>>> you choose),
>> Some form of vi.  (vim being common.  Often "vi" is provided by vim,
>> depending on your distribution and installed packages.)
>>
>
> Actually, he almost definitely used vim (vi Improved), started with
> the vi symlink/alias to vim.  Nearly no one has traditional vi
> installed, and even though vim has a vi-compatibility mode, which is
> enabled by default, any sane distro should ensure there's a system
> vimrc so that vim does not enable compatibility mode.  Using
> compatibility mode causes you to lose all reasons for using vim.  It's
> not 1976, anymore, so there's no good reason to use vi-compatibility
> mode--and if you're still running vi macros that you haven't updated
> since 1991 (the year vim was released), you really need to look at a
> calendar.  And/or if you refuse to learn the differences/benefits in
> vim, you really need to rethink your plan.
>
> Mike
> _______________________________________________
True enough. VI sucked, compared to VIM.



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