On May 19, 2012, at 1:35 PM, "Mehrdad" <wfunct...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, 19 May 2012 at 20:00:03 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 
>> Yikes! I highly recommend using plain vanilla vim, no GUI
> 
> Oh geez, that'll take a while lol. At least with GVim, I can discover the 
> command names through the menus haha.

The only way to really learn vim is to suffer through it until it clicks. The 
experience is so fundamentally different than other editors, that menus would 
just prevent that from happening. That said, some editors, like Sublime Text 2 
(my current favorite) have a vi mode that functions pretty closely to how vi 
does. It's another way to ease your way into the vi mindset, as it were. 
Personally, I know enough vi to get around but not enough to prefer it. It's 
simy a matter of necessity though, as vi is the only editor I've found 
installed on every system I need to edit on. Too bad it couldn't at least be 
vim though. 

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