I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored. There have been many nights when I've fallen asleep at the keyboard trying to make a release. At least now I can fall asleep with a mouse in my hand. I use the Xerox optica mouse instead of the other one because it is color coordinated with my office. Did you notice? I prefer the white mouse to the black mouse. You've got to have some fun, right?
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Anonymous2009-04-06 15:59
KILL YOURSELF
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Anonymous2009-04-06 16:03
This thread doesn't make sense. However vim is a great editor for the programmer who esteemes it. If you know how to use it properly, you'll become much more quick in programming than a normal-ide-equiped one...
The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.
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Anonymous2009-04-06 17:13
>>7
Although Vim does have a mouse. The fundamental problem with Vim (besides its internals and failure to be scriptable) is that it's got all these commands, so programmers think they should use them instead of their mouse.
Quote from vim built-in user guide (simply :help mouse)
'mouse' string (default "", "a" for GUI, MS-DOS and Win32)
global
{not in Vi}
Enable the use of the mouse. Only works for certain terminals
(xterm, MS-DOS, Win32 |win32-mouse|, QNX pterm, *BSD console with
sysmouse and Linux console with gpm). For using the mouse in the
GUI, see |gui-mouse|.
The mouse can be enabled for different modes:
n Normal mode
v Visual mode
i Insert mode
c Command-line mode
h all previous modes when editing a help file
a all previous modes
r for |hit-enter| and |more-prompt| prompt
Normally you would enable the mouse in all four modes with: >
:set mouse=a
< When the mouse is not enabled, the GUI will still use the mouse for
modeless selection. This doesn't move the text cursor.
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Anonymous2009-04-06 17:37
>>11
I will not yield my mouse. You can use it when I'm done.
>>20
the problem vi was designed to solved hasn't changed at all in those three decades.
editing text is something the authors of ed, se, and vi understood better than the idiots writing toys like gedit, notepad, textmate, and emacs.
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Anonymous2009-04-07 6:30
>>27
Do you realize that (along with >>1 and >>7) was a quote from the author of vi, from 1984?
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. I think as mode-based editors go, it pretty good. One of the good things about EMACS, though, is its programmability and the modelessness.
>>13
I don't see why you need mouse so much. I only use mine when I...
Nevermind.
Also, my post number is is three times your post number.
-- My current configuration:
★ Linux 2.6.28
★ GNU Coreutils 7.1
★ XMonad 0.8.1
★ GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 build 20090329
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Emacs2009-04-08 3:14
Development began in the mid-70s and continues actively as of 2009. Emacs text editors are most popular1 with technically proficient computer users and computer programmers. The most popular version of Emacs is GNU Emacs, a part of the GNU project, which is commonly referred to simply as "Emacs".