Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Tue 8th Jul 2008 15:19 UTC
I find a large number of people around me who have used vim a few times while writing programs. Very few of them have grown into becoming effective vim users. The majority drop out because of its initially daunting interface. A good number of the interested users switch to emacs, because they think the 'power' just isn't there with vim. I am not saying emacs is bad, but I just cannot stand decisions made on lack of information.
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RE: Good article but....
by DoctorPepper on Tue 8th Jul 2008 22:42
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Member since:2005-07-12
I agree totally. Splitting windows is one of my "neat" selling points for Vim, to my hard-core vi-user friends. Once they see me split a window horizontally, then resize them, and split the top window vertically, they become totally impressed.
Actually, my best selling point is when I edit multiple files, and show how to move between them, then copy and paste between buffers.
Oh, and we won't even talk about the syntax highlighting. That's always good for a few "oooh"'s and "ah"s. :-)
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2005-07-17
I thought this article was filled with a lot of good tidbits, however one comment was made that made me cringe!
I assume you know how to split windows, and all that jazzy stuff.
This is the one feature that totally expected to be covered. Every time I use vim and the split window feature with someone next to me they are instantly like "WOW! How do you do that?" I think this is one of vims most flexible and underused features that should have been granted space in this article. Especially when insertion and copy/paste functions are covered. I give this article a B+ overall, but come on guy! Cover the split windows.