[Tutor] What has Editor X got that PyWin32 hasn't?

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On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Dick Moores <rdm at rcblue.com> wrote:

>  At 05:11 PM 8/12/2008, Alan Gauld wrote:
>
> I use Pythonwin for most of my short programming tasks
> (with occasional forays into other tools like PyCrust and SPE) but for
> serious programming I use vim. Why?
>
>
> Alan,
>
> 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*   gvim##.exe" which is listed on <http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc>.
> Is this the sort of vim you're talking about?
>

Make sure you run vimtutor ;)

And read this: http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html

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.

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.

and I find the autocomplete WAY useful.

HTH,
Wayne
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