On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Frank Cox theatre@sasktel.net wrote:
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:04:16 -0500 Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
Should I try to learn vi (Vim) (which obviously will help me, if I ever need to administer a remote box) or install Emacs or something else, for the gcc editor?
That's the sort of question where, if you ask ten people for their opinion, you will get sixteen different answers. At least.
I personally use either vi or nedit, depending on what the current environment is and what I'm trying to accomplish.
OK, I'm the second of the sixteen answers. I use vi and elvis (GUI editor 100% compatible with vi). I highly recommend you learn vi. You will never regret :-D
I also recommend you learn vi. There are one reason which is not vi related and I want to point it out here.
People using vi usually work on terminal ... if your are Linux or Win32/MinGW+MSYS user ... you are probably using 'bash'. The 'bash' has a edit mode called vi mode which allow you to edit command history via vi's search command '/' or '?'.
If you are using terminal command a lot ... this feature is your friend. It's a lot of better than using arrow key to fetch back the command history.
So, learn vi ... and you can share the same command when using terminal/bash.
Regards KC
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