On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 06:54 -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote: > The biggest advantage to learning Vi is it's the only editor guaranteed > to always be installed on every *nix box. You should at least know the > basics. As long as you're learning the basics, you might as well learn > what makes Vim so magical that people make such a big deal about it.
I completely agree with Stuart here, you should at least know the basics of Vim, and heaven forbid plain old Vi when your working on a really old *nix box. > Once upon a time, the stereotypical break down was: Vi for sysadmins, > Emacs for developers. These days, though, many developers have moved on > to IDEs. And that is pretty much how I actually split my work. If I have to work on a remote box to edit a few lines of config file or make a small update to a program I use Vi/Vim, if I'm coding on my desktop machine I work in Emacs. -Richard Holden -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
