OK, I have VIM running on the Mac. I know that others have touted VIM, but I don't see the advantage -- it looks like several other command-line editors available on *nix systems. It appears to be heavy on key-entry and light on GUI. It appears that to become proficient, one must learn yet another series of keyed commands.
I guess my questions would be: 1) what are the advantages of using VIM over other editors (CLI or GUI). 2) what are the specific advantages to CFML, HTML,Java, JavaScript coding. 3) Is it worth the effort to learn to use this editor? No offense intended, but VIM seems rather retrograde when compared to some of the GUI editors currently available. I know an editor is a personal thing, but if one already is comfortable with BBEdit, JEdit, Studio, whatever -- what would be the advantage of learning VIM? It seems to me that you would be giving up quite a bit! I don't want to get into a Pi**ing contest -- I am sincerely interested in the advantages of VIM. Am I missing something? Dick On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 11:08 AM, Dick Applebaum wrote: > On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 10:30 AM, Hugo Ahlenius wrote: > >> I am starting to get tired of promoting VIM as the best editor/IDE for >> all >> CF related work... Which has almost any feature you throw at it. And >> thousands of more. >> >> No Emacs users out here? Or fellow VIM-mers? >> >> > > Mac OS X comes with emacs -- but a it is a CLI editor. > > There is a vim for Mac OS X at: > > http://macvim.swdev.org/OSX/ > > > I am downloading it now -- will give it a try and comment later. > > Dick ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
