I've just discovered that VIM is pretty powerful, has numerous IDE-like features, and is extremely customizable. Fuck Emacs, Gedit, Notepad++, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Xcode, etc.
I've been writing software for over a decade and I have used everything listed above but I always thought of VI/VIM as merely a simple line editor. Why didn't anyone tell me about how awesome VIM truly is?
Most recent proof: you can't use :buffer command to reliably select a buffer corresponding to a file with curly braces in the name. Because the buffer selection command uses the regex engine in some fairly weird mode(s), which results in it either treating curly braces as special characters or ignoring them completely. Or something, it does fuzzy things. The bottom line is that if you have "{}.h" and "{}.c" opened, you can't select either one by name. Why? Fuck you, that's why.
>>6 You tried to be funny, but s/>/</ and you got it almost right, except that ed should go first (that is, last).
>>7 >>6 You tried to be funny, but s/>/</ and you got it almost right, except that ed should go first (that is, last).
Eat a dick you elitist pedantic cock sucking hipster faggot. Enjoy using hard-to-use tools that actually don't work just so you can impress your potential girlfriendsyour friends your parents.
I use my own editor. It's web-based so sometimes when I'm at a gaymen faggot's house I point the PS3's browser to my editor, plug in a key board and start hacking.
How's your one month of coding experience and zero prospects of employment treating you?
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Anonymous2011-09-01 16:54
Why do people feel the need to differential between Vi and Vim and by written Vi(m)? PROGTIP: unless you're using a 20 year old BSD distro, you've never used Vi.
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Anonymous2011-09-01 16:54
>>34
That's a tricky question, right? Because it's my fucking immanentized prospects of employment that make me edit files like blah-blah/enterprise.csdms_server-{BPM2.0}-dev/FactoryFactoryFactoryAbstractFactory.ecpp
Pays good though. If only Vim weren't such a nerdshit niggerfaggot autism, I'd be quite happy.
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Anonymous2011-09-01 19:38
>>35
Vim has the ability to rice the fuck out of it with plugins. I mean, what other editor lets you program with your favorite Touhous?
My favorite features of vim would be recording key presses and replaying them (the q and @ commands), and executing a command a specified number of times. Does anyone know off hand if these features are present in emacs, eclipse, or other popular editors? I would be set if others could do it too.
Vim has more options then Windows. Except you have to know about them beforehand before you can actually change them. Why does vim still not have a settings menu after ~20 years?
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Anonymous2011-09-05 12:35
>>40
There are free full conversion VIM plugins/add-ons for both Eclipse and Visual Studio 2010.
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Anonymous2011-09-05 12:36
>>43
GUI menu for settings takes up too much effort to build. Easier just to use a text file.
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Anonymous2011-09-05 14:26
>>45
Why didn't they just make an edit.com clone then? Yes, I know vim is probably older then edit.com, that's not the point.