[GRLUG] Editors

[John J Foerch]

Carlus Henry writes:
 > With Vim, Zach mentioned the file navigation.  The way that I accomplish the
 > file navigation without the mouse in Vim is through the ":Explore" command.
 > This will change Vim so that it is in the file browser mode.  Another neat
 > trick is to use the ":Sexplore" which will split your Vim session, keeping
 > open the file you are currently editing and open another editor / browser to
 > browse the file system.  Of course with both of these commands, you are able
 > to put in the starting location of where you want to browse files.


Emacs also has several very nice find-file interfaces.  Ones worth
checking out are Ido, Dired, and Speedbar.  I use Ido almost
exclusively, but Dired if I want to keep some directories open in a
background buffer.  I haven't used Speedbar very much but it seems
nice.

--John