[GRLUG] Vim Group? Editors and IDEs

[Bob Kline]

vim UG?

I'm curious, how much of vim do
most people actually use?

I've been using vi for 30 years, and
I doubt I use more than two dozen
commands. I'm guessing that 99% of
the work gets done with maybe 5%
or less of the features of vi - now vim.

* Open and close a file.  Maybe
  close it with :q! if the file has
  been mangled.  Maybe write the
  file out now and then with :w

*  yy or Nyy to yank a line or lines.

* p to put some lines in place.

* a, i, A, and I to add some stuff.

* ^ and $ to position at the beginning
 or end fo a line.

* cw or Ncw to change a word or words.

* dd, dw, D, x, X, to remove some stuff.

* :r file to, well, read in a file at a specific
  place.

* :1,$s/string1/string2/g to replace something
  everywhere in a file.

* / and ?  to find something, and n to find
 another occurrence.

Even that much seems to get one a long
way.  On rare occasions I've used buffers,
edited multiple files, etc.

What other things do people find handy?

    -- Bob


On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Don Ellis <don.ellis at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > --
> >  Ben Rousch
> >    brousch at gmail.com
> >    http://clusterbleep.net/
>
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