These are commodities added on top; the original VI or VIM do not have all of these features. If you log in into a standard Unix box, you won't have that.
Technically you can write shell script that allow you to compile and link directly from VI, but is more work than expected...it was not made for that after all. Not saying that you can't do it; but that it is a pain to do it for big projects. I use VI all the time for any small project, but try to write something like a full size application and you can see that is not feasible. BTW you refer to text editors preference, not IDE, since VI is not an IDE. I agree that each person choose their own, same goes for the IDE :) For example I still love DEV C++; does all that I need and I wish that there was a version for Angstrom...and that's an ancient IDE, but it is lightweight and decently fast. Most people do not need the ton of features that big IDE gives you, like VS. On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 7:56:42 AM UTC-8, Paulo Ferreira wrote: > > > On 05/03/2014, at 12:30, Karl Longen <2frikki...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > BTW you have never tried to code pages and pages using just VI > probably.... > > > > Any person in their right state of mind would not use VI, unless you are > writing short programs (like shell script), or very simple applications. > > > > Renounce to auto correction, color syntax, auto completion, and a ton > more of functionalities, when you are coding millions of lines, is not > different from running win 3.1 on a modern computer :) > > > > As much as I love terminal, there are things that are not feasible > without a good text editor with plenty of functions; without even > mentioning the pros of a real IDE, when you need to debug and such. > > > Well, last time I checked vim has (even in text mode): > > Color syntax (and syntax checking when doing save) : > https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic > Auto Completion and more: > http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=213 > When I compile it can place me on the file and on the line where the error > is... > > And the "colorized" syntax works on ssh connections, and you can have > multiple windows in text mode with just one ssh connection with tmux: > http://tmux.sourceforge.net > > It may not be a tool for everybody, editor and IDEs are alms a religious > issue, and b=should be left to the individual taste, but vi (vim) is more > powerful than it looks. > > Best regards > Paulo Ferreira > > > > > > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
