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At 04:22 AM 8/13/2008, W W wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:17
PM, Dick Moores
<<a href="mailto:rdm@rcblue.com">rdm@rcblue.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<dd>At 05:11 PM 8/12/2008, Alan Gauld wrote:<br>
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<dd>I use Pythonwin for most of my short programming tasks<br>
<dd>(with occasional forays into other tools like PyCrust and SPE) but
for serious programming I use vim. Why?</blockquote><br>
<dd>Alan,<br><br>
<dd>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</b> gvim##.exe" which
is listed on <
<a href="http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc" eudora="autourl">
http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc</a>>. Is this the sort of vim
you're talking about? <br><br>
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Make sure you run vimtutor ;)</blockquote><br>
OK!<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">And read this:
<a href="http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html">
http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html</a></blockquote><br>
Hey, that looks very useful! Thanks.<br><br>
How about the O'Reilly book?
<<a href="http://www.bestbookdeal.com/book/detail/059652983X/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.bestbookdeal.com/book/detail/059652983X/</a>><br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
and I find the autocomplete WAY useful.</blockquote><br>
Is it better than in other editors? <br><br>
Dick Moores<br><br>
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