[plug] Editors

[John Summerfield]

> Peter Wright wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 11:55:47AM +0800, Matt Kemner wrote:
> > > On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Gavin Tweedie wrote:
> > >
> > > > So of those of you who use vi or a clone, which do you use and
> > > > why?
> 
> VI is terrible gvim is far better - but these days i usually use custom
> specific editors like wpe, kwrite 
> mcedit - staroffice etc 
> I'ts unfortunate that many mnuals for unix give the impression that vi
> is the only editor available 
> so along comes a new or novice user and confronted with vi is totally
> put off using unix at all.
> I would never reccomended vi to anyone- i may suggest gvim caus it
> finally addressed the needs
> of novice users ( easy to use with gui ). 

It has to be installed before you can use it, and so does its environment. 
A while ago I had to fall back on ed because vim wasn't installed.

I've not used wpe; kwrite is a bit basic for my taste. Ditto the gnome 
editors. Staroffice isn't installed here, so you couldn't use that. Ditto 
mcedit.

It's true that vi (and vim) is hard to learn; I bought a book to help. 
However, the fact that it can be scripted adds much in its favour. I often 
use vim over a modem connexion; the way O overwork my modem, using gvim 
would be extremely painful.


I also find all the text editors that come with Windows next to useless;-)

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