Its the same program, just Improved :-)
People hate things they do not understand.
You're probably right, and if I had memorized all the commands to be able to
edit text, and had gotten used to it, I may like it. I've just gotten used
to free-format editing w/o having to enter any commands to do it.
Yeah, you'll probably be better sticking with your old program. Don't
even look at GVIM, its VIM with a Graphical Interface, and that is VI
Improved with a lot of features. So, you wouldn't like it.
I downloaded and installed it, since it was pretty small. You're right,
it's pretty much VI for Windows in a GUI. Probably not something that I'll
use that often.
What can I say?! Its a taste thing! But the fact that you had problems
with your editor may indicate you'll have more problems in the future.
VI is in every distro of Linux I've ever used so far, so, it was best
to learn it in order to admin my servers in a better way, porting it
for Windows saved me a lot of work (learning a new, win tool).
Besides, what simple, fast and reliable editor you know can:
VI is kind of like the old edlin program in DOS. I really HATED that one
too. Talk about a bad editor, but that was a bad editor. You had to edit
line-by-line. At least with VI, you can edit the whole thing at one time,
and go back and forth. It's really a safe editor too, you have to do
something to change the text, which is kind of good. I use Linux very
infrequently, but I can always rely on VI to allow me to edit a
configuration file, or whatever.
1) Automatically backup files.
2) Auto-ident code.
3) Highlight code from at least 100 languages (including SQL, C, PHP,
Java, HTML).
4) Show you differences between files (oh, that helped me a lot with
my.cnf)
5) Keep versions of old edited files
6) Remember the position where you left editing the file
7) Line numbering, jump to, copy paste visual or command, delete lines
by number, delete multiple and much more editing features.
8) Much more stuff I don't use/know
Multi-Edit does all of these things that you mentioned above, and much more!
That's one of the reasons I like it so much. I've never really ran into a
problem with this before, and it's possible that it's just a setting in my
editor some where. There are SO MANY settings. Anyway, resolved for now,
and I'll never throw away old faithful Multi-Edit (unless something better
comes along).
Jesse
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