> Everybody who uses vim raves about its greatness, but it > took me less time to write my first useful Python program > than it did to figure out how to open, change, and save a > file in vim. OK, I exaggerate a BIT...)
But not much. - The point about vi/vim is that it is written for power users. It makes no compromises for newbies. As such it has one of the steepest learning curves of any editir. But once you grasp the concepts it is one of(if not the) fasyest text editors around. Everything is designed to minimise typing for expert users- on the basis that you will spend far more time using it as an expert than you will becoming an expert. My first experience of vi was on the OS/9 real-time OS at uni. I had no alternative editor so I had to learn it (it was called scred = scvreen editor - on OS/9!) but I hated it after Turbo Pascal! then at work we moved fopm Vax to unix and I came across vi again. but this time surrounded by ex unix hackers who showed me its mysteries. More importantly they introduced me to tutvi (aka vitutor) which was where I had the flash of light that showed the logic in the keystrokes and in the modal way of working. I used vi/emacs equally on *nix systems ever since (and even ex sometimes - ex is the line mode of vi! - think edlin on DOS... When I moved to PC I found that emacs didn't seem to work so well on Windows so I stopped using it, but vim (gvim) was as good as ever! On the subject of eclipse, i tried it, and am now having to use it at work, and it was nice but slowwwwwww. Now I have a much faster PC I might try pydev again. Anyone know how to get a >>> prompt in eclipse? BTW One final option that i really like as a vim alternative for newbies is Scite. Its a more powerful version of the Pythonwin editor so everything you know from pythonwin works but it also does a zillion other languages plus has tabbed editing. Plus its very small and works from a flash drive so is easy to carry around. HTH, Alan G
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