On 5/25/07, Yongwei Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 24/05/07, Robert M Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 May 2007, fREW wrote:
> |Someone recently was emailing the list about looking at a small
> |section of DNA with vim as text and it was a number of gigs. I think
> |he ended up using other unix tools (sed and grep I think), but
> |nontheless, text files can be big too ;-)
> |
> |-fREW
> |
>
> A maxim that comes up here is "A lack of imagination doesn't prove anything."
> The fact that Condoleeza Rice couldn't imagine the degree of chaos that would
> ensue if we invaded Iraq does not prove that Iraq is not currently in chaos!
>
> I use vim for _structured_ text files, largely because regular expression
> search is much more useful than word search when the text is structured.
> Whether those files are large or not usually depends on whether I'm editing
> programs (small) or viewing/editing their output (often quite large). Emacs
> also provides regular expression search, but I find vim's commands simpler
> and easier to type--and therefore faster to use.
I do not understand your statements: what's your problem of using
regular expressions in grep and sed?
I think Robert implied that it takes lot of imagination
to use vim on multi-gigabyte size. I might be wrong.
I don't exactly understand the connection size of one's
imagination and size of the file on which one applies vim.
But the connection is perfectly possible. For example, I never tried to
run vim on anything bigger than 0.5GB and I do indeed have
average or lesser than average imagination.
Hell starting tomorrow, I am going to vim the 2+0.2*day_count sized
files, every day,
It only remains to buy imagine-o-meter, and apply it daily.
Yakov "average-sized imagination" Lerner
