People that say vim sucks just don't realize how much faster you can manipulate text in vim than any other editor.
except nvi. vim is huge like xbox, and therefore slower.
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Anonymous2007-04-22 22:01 ID:xAYvd71n
>>9
5. Any forced meme in /prog/ will be unfunny. No exceptions.
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Anonymous2007-04-23 3:10 ID:w5qWqNc4
>>21
What I meant was the number of keystrokes required to perform certain complex operations. If the vim is executing too slowly for you, maybe you should get a new computer ...
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Anonymous2007-04-23 4:54 ID:csIp/FWQ
>>20
Vim piping sucks very badly. What's the point of rectangular selections is you can't pipe filter them? There is some plugin hack for that but it broke many other things the last time I tried it.
>>23
I don't understand why you would want to filter visual block selections, not to mention there's no guarantee the block will maintain the same shape after filtering, and it would be unclear how to line up the result with the surrounding text.
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Anonymous2007-04-24 5:52 ID:0NOyLsVO
>>26
I don't understand why you wouldn't want that. Emacs does it just fine and I use the feature all the time.
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I just recently used Kate to do that. I selected a block from a table which had a bunch of definitions I needed, but in a column of a character-based table. Then I pasted it in a new file, and processed it as I wanted with a regular expression (didn't have to use pipes though, built-in), ending with something that was useful for me.