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Originally Posted by HarryT
Oh, it's a "vi" clone, is it? I know "vi" like the back of my hand; used it for years on Unix systems during my "former life" as a radio astronomer.
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Yes, it's a Vi clone... adding about a gazillion additional commands.
After you have learned all of them, you'll find that there's always...
JUST
ONE
MORE.
And if there's not... then there WILL be, with the next release.
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Originally Posted by BWinmill
It's best to avoid vi dependence. It has driven people to develop everything from vi inspired web browsers to vi inspired window managers, simply because it's impossible to use anything else once the keybindings are hardwired into your brain.
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True enough... there are Vim plugins for Visual Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans... for about anything you can think of. While "Vi / Vim" are very powerful, their way of handling text is completely different to any other editor.
You either don't use Vim... or you use it for about everything.
It's impossible to "casually" use it.
(The same is probably true for Emacs.)
As said, I can use Vi / Vim (and Emacs) to get some basic stuff done if I need to, but I'm not using them as my main text editors.