Pick one

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:02 am

Let's settle this.

Asrale · Post by **Asrale** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:47 am

Sorry, only ever used emacs in my computer science classes in college, wasn't too bad for what we did. Had a personal aversion to UNIX/Linux outside of college, haven't touched it since graduation.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:08 am

I use Homesite for just about all web-code. Notepad and TextPad for other stuff.

The things in your list... are they text editors?

Nitrofox125 · Post by **Nitrofox125** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:00 am

vi, it was the first and only one I've learned so far, and there's something satisfying about knowing what

92Gf{dt}

does.

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:06 am

whatyoutalkingaboutwillis

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:08 pm

Dedman wrote:whatyoutalkingaboutwillis

They're text editors.

Personally, I despise VI, but I've never used the rest.

Spaceboy · Post by **Spaceboy** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:15 pm

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:44 pm

I <3 vi.

VaussBait · Post by **VaussBait** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:57 pm

vi - the first un*x editor I learned in the 80's and have been happy w/ it ever since.

-Vauss OUT

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:04 pm

vi ... why? because I learned it 20+ years ago, I have never had to update it, and the same exact key sequences do the same things they did 20 years ago. I know that it has a learning curve but it is worth it. I am much more efficient than any other editor when coding.

My favorite feature of vi? I NEVER have to take my fingers off the keyboard to do ANYTHING ... Never even need a mouse ... this make me so much more efficient and faster.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:05 pm

Alright, someone has to complain about vi's distinct inability to work flawlessly over SSH. Might as well be me.

Nitrofox125 · Post by **Nitrofox125** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:29 pm

I've never had a problem vi'ing over ssh...

:%s/DCrazy//g

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:43 pm

sounds like a messed-up escape chars in that SSH setup of yours.

in linux I normally use nano.

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:43 am

Nitrofox125 wrote:I've never had a problem vi'ing over ssh...

Same here.

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:48 pm

sheesh.

Gooberman · Post by **Gooberman** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:49 pm

Xamindar · Post by **Xamindar** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:28 pm

vi, only one I really bothered to learn and stuck with it.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:32 pm

Only one I've used is VIM, so I'm glad to see that people are saying it's the best. And, yeah, granted I do noob VI stuff over SSH, I haven't had any troubles yet.

Sergeant Thorne · Post by **Sergeant Thorne** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:50 pm

When I first read "vi" in another thread, I assumed it meant Visual Interdev (what I use); I can see by reading this thread that I was mistaken. What is "vi", and who makes it?

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:52 pm

vi is a text editor that dates back to the 70's, as is emacs. Not sure when pico came around. Since these editors are non-graphical, all movement and editing is done with the mouse. Emacs has all sorts of macro capabilities (that's why it was created), but vim is easier to understand and use. For example, when someone before posted ":s/DCrazy//g", that's a vi command to replace all occurrences of DCrazy on the current line with empty text.

Vi is no longer maintained in its original form; vim (VI iMproved) is a clone of the original vi that is in wide use today.

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:57 pm

Ref This

Introduction
Vi (pronounce: ``vee eye'', not ``six'', not ``vye'') is an editor. An editor is a program to edit files. Goodbye.

Although other stories exist, the true one tells that Vi was originally written by Bill Joy in 1976. Bill took the sources of ed and ex, two horrendous programs for Unix that try to enable a human being to edit files, and created Vi. A truly remarkable, and somewhat paradoxical, event. Read the interview with Bill Joy for a more accurate history of Vi.

People got attached to Vi, and eventually it got included in System V. From there on history has covered its traces and now Vi has evolved in many different versions for many, many platforms. The basic concept of Vi, however, has not changed over the years.

The Vi Lovers Home Page has links to the latest version of different Vi implementations. In addition, there are links to useful documentation, FAQs, and other (better) Vi related resources. This is the best place to be for every Vi user or Vi user wannabe.

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:57 pm

Mobius wrote:The things in your list... are they text editors?

NOOB!!!! LOL ..

Pick one

Which editor do you prefer?

Pick one