I'll have to say that I too support vi. It's great for novice users that aren't capable of using emacs. *grin* Travis Please respond to James Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Travis Simon/Australia/IDG) Subject: Re: [SLUG] RE: Good Web design proggie On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Nick Croft generated: >On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, David Zverina wrote: > >> Use vim .... simplicity of vi with the advantage of color highlighting. It > >> <flamebait> I am sure some heathen will suggest emacs too .... but we all >> know that emacs people are just like the KDE people. PLAIN WRONG!! :) >> </flamebait> >> >> Cheers, >> Dave. >`heathens' is a bit strong, as is `KDE people'. >vim vs emacs -- looks like the war between Mac users and Windows users >all over again. In that case both camps might be mistaken. > >Seriously, though, how is vim's search facility. I sometimes search >through thousands of old emails in emacs. Can you do that with vim? In command mode, hit '/' just as you would in less, mutt, dselect, and type your text... even handles regexs! -- jamesw Written in vi ------------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
