"Every now and again I like to spend a while becoming really familiar with the various tools which I use frequently. This week I spent several hours experimenting with the various paging applications available to Debian users. Here is my guide to the common pagers, and what they can do."
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I would tend to agree... Vim takes a tiny bit longer to load a long file than less, but it's so much more powerful, even if the input file is read-only. Line seeking isn't very accurate in less, for some reason, and browsing source code is so much faster in vim.
Basically, I use these rules:
If there's even a chance that I might want to edit a file, I'll view it in vim.
If the file is source code, I always use vim.
If it's a long log file, I tend to use less.
I think that less should be more vim-like. It should be like vim, stuck in permanent command mode. All vim commands should work in less, and it should read your .vimrc file (mostly for syntax highlighting and keybindings).
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Cscope is a very useful tool -- it's roughly similar to the IACULL source code indexing/search tool that I'm used to in the Unisys mainframe world.
I found it ironic that a mainframer like myself had to fight to get cscope installed on the development server when I first started to do Solaris development at a former place of employment. I thought UNIX people were supposed to be trendy types, and yet I encountered more NIH syndrome and fewer open minds in the distributed group than I did on the mainframe side of life. Most of the UNIX folks said to just use grep and forget about it, but it isn't the same thing at all...
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