> > Vim is great if you have a good memory... Otherwise you end up trawling > > through the help to find out how to do stuff that would in another IDE > > be just a few menu clicks away. > > Mental memory (the painful kind of memory) rapidly turns into muscle > memory (the fun kind of memory) and all of those mind boggling > keystrokes begin to feel like an artistic expression reminiscent of > playing the piano.
That's probably true. I still have a long way to go to get the most out of vim though, because it takes a certain amount of mental memory to be able to use the keystrokes often enough to turn them into muscle memory... I tend to use gvim on my PC if I'm also working on my server via ssh - that way it doesn't matter if I type a few ESC :w's or :dd's. Otherwise I tend to use jEdit. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
