On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Kuang-Chun Cheng kcc1967@gmail.com wrote:
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?
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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.
Thank you for pointing that out! Yes, bash is the shell.