[ale] Survey -- preferred Text Editor

[Jim Kinney]

I've become addicted to vim and colorized code. It's a quick check on
missing parentheses and the like and is standard (until fedora 19 - wtf?!
must load after distro loads.) in fedora/rhel distros.
On Oct 22, 2013 6:30 PM, "Jim Lynch" <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:

> On 10/21/2013 03:10 PM, Jonathan Meek wrote:
>
>> Now to really start the holy wars of all holy wars since we got the
>> preferred distro, desktop, and browser.
>>
>> What's everyone preferred text editor?
>>
> I've been using vi and it's relatives for so long that I find any other
> editor cumbersom.   I use an editor for programming mostly and the ability
> to quickly delete or duplicate lines and place them somewhere else via the
> keyboard beats a GUI everytime, IMO.  There are so many things like the
> yank (yf.  yank all characters up to and including the period on one line)
> substitute (:%s/off/on/g substitute the word on for off everwhere) the
> period to repeat the last command.  All of that without taking my hands
> from the keyboard.  Combine that with a gui in gvim and the world is your
> pearl!  My life would be complete if someone would combine the best of
> geary and vim.
>
> I learned vi many years ago when some version of it was on every system I
> worked on, that had a command line, that is.  I never found it on VM or MVS
> but I wouldn't doubt someone had ported it.
>
> Jim.
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