[GRLUG] Vim Group? Editors and IDEs

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:36:03AM -0400, Ben Rousch wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Topher <topher at codeventure.net> wrote:
> >
> > I was a pico guy until about 1997, vim ever since.  I started emacs once,
> > but couldn't figure out how to quit.
> 
> Interestingly, that was one of my first problems using Vim. The other
> was that I couldn't figure out how to edit. Vim has basically replaced
> all of my Nano usage - editing config files - but little more than
> that.

Isn't that everyone's first problem with vi/m?  :-)

I've used Linux since 1997 but I started using vi back in 1994 or '95 on
a SCO UNIX box.  It's the only text editor I've ever used (though I use
kile for writing in LaTeX).
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