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vim is the only thing I code in at work. It totally rocks the socks out of any editor out there, but yeah it can take a little bit to learn, and even longer to setup all the neat things. but once you do, it's so worth it. And for those who hate remembering commands try gvim
Have you managed to get coloured synxtax in ViM? I've saw a few screenshots that show it possible and I can't find any guides that explain how to enable it. I've used the Joe editor which shows colour so the terminal is capable of it.
impulse() wrote:Have you managed to get coloured synxtax in ViM? I've saw a few screenshots that show it possible and I can't find any guides that explain how to enable it. I've used the Joe editor which shows colour so the terminal is capable of it.
It's ':syntax enable' on a standard vim installation. Check out http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_toc.html. It's the vim help pages in an almost usable format, and has a more detailed explanation of how to do syntax highlighting stuff in it.
Burrito wrote:I use vi at work for server admin...there's not enough money in my state to make me use it for coding .
I've never found a half decent IDE for KDE that did everything that vim did and didn't suck, so I just stuck with vim.
Use Vi, Yes, like it no. Reason to use it... Always need to know the lowest common denominator. You can never know if a customer will have any other editor installed on a site you go to and you cannot always install another one. You should at least be able to edit a file, even if you don't know all the commands such as the "yank" facilities.