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Vi - Does anybody use it?
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:45 pm
by impulse()
Anybody know how to show the syntax in colour?
Ste,
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:51 pm
by Weirdan
in
vim (won't work in
vi):
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:52 pm
by Benjamin
I like using vim. It definetly isn't user friendly but it's nice once you learn the commands.
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:19 pm
by DrTom
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
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:33 pm
by impulse()
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.
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:58 pm
by neophyte
I use Vim/VI at work for some server administration. But I try to use my nice colorful GUI's when possible. On RHE3 VI has color coding.
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:06 pm
by Burrito
I use vi at work for server admin...there's not enough money in my state to make me use it for coding

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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:12 pm
by neophyte
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

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Amen.
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:31 pm
by DrTom
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

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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.
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:55 pm
by neophyte
Really? I'm on KDE right now and I'm using PHPEclipse and my second choice on KDE is Quanta Plus.
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:40 am
by ibbo
I use vi a lot but projects are under ZEND and phpEclipse.
ibbo
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:09 am
by CoderGoblin
Colour, no idea didn't think it was possible.
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.
My preference is Eclipse or joe.