[thelist] real men code by hand...

Nick Wilson nick at explodingnet.com
Tue Mar 19 04:35:01 CST 2002


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* and then Simon Willison declared....
> Vi (or rather Vim) is actually an incredibly powerful editor. It has a

> commands make me dizzy :( It's definitely worth learning as it seems to
> come as standard on pretty much every *nix box out there and it's just
> as usable from a terminal as it is in a windowing system - it's just a
> shame the learning curve is so daunting...

Try typing vimtutor
that's how I learnt it. I probably don't use 10% of Vim advanced
features but the few I've mastered make it very worthwile. They have a
nice user mailing list over at vim.org to which is where i go when I
can't work it out :-)

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