http://www.osnews.com/story/15871/Visual_Walkthrough_New_Features_in_Vim_7_0 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 25 May 2013 16:16:37 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?163314 http://www.osnews.com/thread?163314 That "Time Machine(tm)"-like feature is very cool. Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Simon Gray) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?163370 http://www.osnews.com/thread?163370 yes, :later seems like a great help feature if you've gotten stuck :-p Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (korpenkraxar) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?163432 http://www.osnews.com/thread?163432 Seems like these guys are a little late to the party. On the fly spell checking, bracket highlighting, open files in tabs, intellisense .. I've had those features for years in other editors.

I wouldn't normally bring this up because I consider doing such a thing to be in bad taste, but in this particular case, I always heard vi was supposed to be the mother of all text editors? I figured vi would've had these features way back in the 80's Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (WorknMan) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?163448 http://www.osnews.com/thread?163448 Seems like these guys are a little late to the party. On the fly spell checking, bracket highlighting, open files in tabs, intellisense .. I've had those features for years in other editors.

You are right. But I can think of hundreds of features which are still lacking in the said *other* editors which are found only in Vi(m).

More over, it is a sacrilege to compare Vi/Vim with any other editor except perhaps emacs. Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jbalmer) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?163467 http://www.osnews.com/thread?163467 More over, it is a sacrilege to compare Vi/Vim with any other editor except perhaps emacs.

Open source, closed minds huh? Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bending Unit) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?163473 http://www.osnews.com/thread?163473 Actually comparing Vim to notepad or other modern editors is foolish. Vim is a command driven editor like emacs as opposed to a mouse/menu driven one. Ed and ex are probably other editors in the same mould.

It's a different metaphor. Nothing to do with open source, but closed minds is prolly right. Once you use one of these editors it's hard switching to anything else. Tue, 19 Sep 2006 05:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deadmeat) Comments