Question

Does anyone use VIM editor? What do you think about it? Is it best editor?

Answer 1

VIM is an excellent editor if you never want to have to use your mouse to navigate your document. There are a lot of people who use it for development (i.e. shadowfiend, actually), but I prefer more conventional editors because I've never taken the time to learn all the different commands.

From what I understand, once you learn all of the commands - you should be able to do any task in vim faster than you could in any other editor... but there will be some frustration while you're learning the commands.

Answer 2

The answer to your question is yes.

Answer 3

:p

Answer 4

I'm a vim fan for life :) But it depends on the person. I would dedicate one or two weeks to learning and trying to get used to vim. At the end of it, you can decide if you like it or not.

Answer 5

we will have informal lesson by students about it in few days and i just briefly looked at it and it's horrible but reviews are great :D

Answer 6

Lol. Nice.

Answer 7

I heard emacs is better.

Answer 8

Nyooooo! :p

Answer 9

You heard wrong. :)

Answer 10

vi is found on most *nixes. It's lightweight enough to be put on a decent sized root partition. emacs is a full IDE, but isn't standard on many *nixes, and it is a bit resource intensive.

The availability of vi on the Irix boxes at work when I started is what switched me over. The fact that vi can go on a root partition really came home after I had to edit a logical volume with ed. I didn't enjoy ed much.

Answer 11

ed... Scares me... :p

Answer 12

emacs is the best