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[Joe Vanderstelt]

Vim and gVim on linux and windows. never actually tried emacs

On 11/2/07, john-thomas richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:50:26AM -0400, Justin Denick wrote:
> > On 11/2/07, Benjamin Eavey <ben at eavey.com> wrote:
> > > Justin Denick wrote:
> > > > On 11/2/07, *Benjamin Eavey* <ben at eavey.com <mailto:ben at eavey.com>>
> > > wrote:
> > > >     Justin Denick wrote:
> > > >      > I used to use vim exclusively, but I like having the ability to
> > > >     scroll,
> > > >      > and I don't get that with vim.
> > > >
> > > >     You don't?  Weird...  works for me.
> > > >
> > > > With a mouse or the keyboard?
> > >
> > > Both.  I don't generally use the mouse, but I can.  Just tried it to
> > > make sure I was remembering correctly.
> >
> > Hmm, for the past 4 years I just thought that vim was anti-mouse. I guess, I
> > have to turn something on.
>
> For the past ten years I thought it was the vim *user* that was anti-mouse.
> :-)
>
> Years ago when I was in the trucking maintenance industry, we hired a
> consultant to make some changes to our in-house Informix database.  This guy
> had about ten different telnet sessions opened up and was editing two or three
> files in each session with vi (not vim; old SCO UNIX box).  He was accessing
> the server from a Windows machine.  I do not think he touched the mouse once.
> Literally.  This guy knew more about vi than anyone I have ever seen.  He was
> amazing.  He was not writing a lot of 4GL code, but he was editing a *ton* of
> it.  I don't think I know a quarter of the vi commands he knows and I have
> been using Linux & vim for over ten years.  His hands never left the keyboard.
> --
> john-thomas
> ------
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> and things they don't want.  It isn't charity to give away things you want
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