On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 05:11 PM 8/12/2008, Alan Gauld wrote: > > I use Pythonwin for most of my short programming tasks > (with occasional forays into other tools like PyCrust and SPE) but for > serious programming I use vim. Why? > > > Alan, > > I used vi/vim a lot years ago in the shell account days. You've got me > wanting to take a look at vim for Windows. I just downloaded the > "*Self-installing > executable* gvim##.exe" which is listed on > <http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc>. > Is this the sort of vim you're talking about? > Make sure you run vimtutor ;) And read this: http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html and then you will most likely never go back - at least I haven't/don't. I feel crippled when I program in anything without the power of vi/vim, even though I can probably almost match my speed with some of the ctrl+ and shift+ hotkeys in most editors. Still, for all of the reasons that other people mention, and my biggest reason is that I can select and move around massive amounts of code without moving my hands much. If I want to delete 10 lines of code, 10dd does it. If I want to change a word, cw. If I want to change several words, the number of words followed by cw. and I find the autocomplete WAY useful. HTH, Wayne
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