On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote: >> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:04:16 -0500 >> Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at 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 > > Akemi > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >