Dan Stromberg wrote: > The first time I saw vi, I hated it. I thought "Why would anyone > actually choose such a terrible editor?" > > But then I was forced to use vi for a while, and I'm glad I was. I > choose it over other editors now. vi/vim give you a pretty much > orthogonal set of verbs and nouns in an editing language.
Sorry, but I have no idea what you mean by "orthogonal set of verbs and nouns in an editing language". Can you explain? > When I have to use editors that make you arrow-key around or click > with a mouse, I feel like it's painfully slow - especially if I need > to do the same thing 5 times in a row. Sure, some editors let you > define macros - vi/vim do that too. But AFAIK, only vi/vim allow you > to define a repeatable action without forethought. I find that between find/replace and Block Selection editing, I can't really say I've missed either the lack of editing macros or these orthogonal verbs, whatever they are. Occasionally I move a large editing job into Python, but I wouldn't want to learn a separate language for that. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list