[GRLUG] Vim Group? Editors and IDEs

[Don Ellis]

I had been using BBEdit quite a lot, until the local (St Louis MO) Vim
UG got started. Fairly active, and we've had presentations at LUG and
Unix UG meetings, besides the vim-geeks meetings. Now, I'm mostly
using MacVim for casual (or formal) editing. At the vim-geeks meetings
and presentations by the leader, I've been learning lots of new
commands and tools beyond basic vi.

One big reason was I started using vi back in mid to early '80s, and I
keep trying to use vi commands in GUI editors. Cmd-Z is my friend. ;-)

--Don Ellis
St Louis (MO)


On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Topher <topher at codeventure.net> wrote:
>>
>> I tweeted about this, but didn't post to the list, so I will now.  This
>> article was amazingly enlightening to me:
>> http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/
>>
>> I just found it the other day, and he talks about doing things with vim I'd
>> never heard of, which is impressive for a 15 year user.
>>
>> It's ostensibly about why he switched from textmate to vim, but his reasons
>> are each great tutorials in themselves.
>>
>> It's really about why vim is a really great editor.
>
> That article is why some of you saw me trying out Vim (again) at
> Wednesday's social meeting. Thanks Topher.
>
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>  Ben Rousch
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