| Re: Using Vi in the 7.0 Workbench [message #57175 is a reply to message #57099] |
Tue, 04 December 2007 10:15  |
Haje Korth
Messages: 651
Registered: May 1997
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No need to apologize, we are just entertaining ourselves.
<sbolin42@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4db8ec97-b46a-4b76-91b4-e9ba24b014b6@e10g2000prf.google groups.com...
> On Dec 4, 8:54 am, "Haje Korth" <haje.ko...@nospam.jhuapl.edu> wrote:
>> David,
>> it had a more provoking effect without the smiley. And don't get me
>> wrong, I
>> know the basics of using vi because on UNIX terminal you sometimes don't
>> have other choices. However, it never occurred to me that I would use it
>> to
>> edit my code.
>>
>> I hope I am far enough away from the people I emotionally touched with my
>> comment. :-) (and I hope the smiley difuses any personal grudges.)
>>
>> Haje
>>
>> "David Fanning" <n...@dfanning.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:MPG.21bf0320580a629598a124@news.frii.com...> Haje Korth writes:
>>
>>>> I don't get it. Isn't vi that entirely user unfriendly editor form the
>>>> unix
>>>> side where I have to hit "i" before I can even start inserting any
>>>> text
>>>> in
>>>> my document? I thought we are trying to get away from that toward more
>>>> usable terrain?
>>
>>> Whoops! Haje forgot the smilely face thingy. :-)
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>
>>> David
>>
>>> P.S. One thing I learned about working in a UNIX shop
>>> recently is that it's not generally a good idea to impugn
>>> someone's choice of editor, no matter how archaic it
>>> seems to you. And, anyway, I'm beginning to see a lot
>>> more value in the old than I used to see. :-)
>>> --
>>> David Fanning, Ph.D.
>>> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
>>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
>>> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
>
> Didn't mean to start an editor debate. I just mention this as an
> option that is available. There are those who are already learned
> in the ways of vi and can really be fast and productive with an
> editor that doesn't require removing your hands from their position
> over the letters on the keyboard.
>
> For some, not all, the ability to have vi plus the power of the
> workbench (outline view, content assist, hover help,
> open declaration, interactive debugger, etc...) is a huge plus.
>
> Even if yoy are not interested in vi, this is an example of the rich
> and diverse possibilities offered by the versatile Eclipse platform.
>
> Scott Bolin
> ITTVis
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