VI

Jonathan Gardner gardner at cardomain.com
Thu Jun 14 14:06:51 EDT 2001


F. Tourigny wrote:

> VI is fun in its own special way, and portable,
> and I'm using it all the time but, personnaly,
> I definitely wouldn't promote its use for regular
> python programming, expecially for large scripts.
> Relatively powerful, but too basic.
> 

Au contraire...

I find the new feautures in Vim 6.0 to be quite useful for programming 
python. You can fold text based on its indention level. Isn't this a 
minimal way of folding text with *no* added effort on the programmer's part?

I admit *vi* is too basic, but *vim* is extremely useful.



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