[GRLUG] Vim Group? Editors and IDEs

[Topher]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Bob Kline wrote:

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

I use many of the ones you use Bob.  According to my .viminfo file I do a 
LOT of :%s#something$something else#g

I also do a fair amount of cutting using markers:

mx marks a spot with the letter x.

The go someplace else and do

d'x and it cuts everything between.  Of course the d can be replaced with 
c or y or whatever.

I also like %d which empties the file.  I use the Web Developer Toolbar to 
do a lot of css editing, but then I often want to copy that all and 
replace what's in a file on the remote server.  I highlight it (since 
highlight copies), go to the remote file, %d empies it, and then press i 
and middle click.

I've been surprised that %c doesn't do the same as %d but leave you in 
insert mode.


I recently noticed that holding shift while navigating with the arrow keys 
skips by word instead of letter.

I do a LOT of navigating by searching.  If I want to be 7 lines down and 6 
words to the right I'm more likely to search for the word I want to be on 
than use nav keys to get there.

topher

> 
> 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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