Vi users are real [Wo]men! [aka editor war]

jdarnold · 2012-06-12 10:37:51

We could entertain everyone with a classic editor flame war.

On second though, maybe not

oliver · 2012-06-12 10:40:17

jdarnold wrote:

On second though, maybe not

good idea - when vi crushes all, I don't want the emacs people upset :-)

Mr Green · 2012-06-12 11:35:14

http://vim-adventures.com/

\m/

doug piston · 2012-06-15 14:45:24

No nano people???

oliver · 2012-06-15 15:49:53

doug piston wrote:

No nano people???

they'll be the ones wearing flowery dresses :-)

Mr Green · 2012-06-16 00:49:04

vi users never go outside!

handy · 2012-06-16 01:17:33

CED is still by far the best editor that I have ever used. It truly is a shame that CygnusEd was never ported from the AmigaOS to Linux, as if they did/do there will be many distro users who would most certainly be very happy about being able to use it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CygnusEd

http://www.apc-tcp.de/support/0030e.php

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Mr Green · 2012-06-16 01:50:06

My weapon of choice

http://www.sublimetext.com/

pablokal · 2012-06-16 05:53:12

My weapon of choice
http://www.sublimetext.com/

In AUR

packer -S sublime-text

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52754

oliver · 2012-06-16 06:16:11

I've started to use geany for a few things... I feel dirty

Meanwhile I must resist the urge to abuse mod powers wrt the title of this thread :-)

scjet · 2012-06-16 06:31:38

...remember "joe" ?

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ratcheer · 2012-06-16 06:41:43

vi rules.

Tim

Mr Green · 2012-06-16 07:49:30

oliver wrote:

Meanwhile I must resist the urge to abuse mod powers wrt the title of this thread :-)

Be my guest

[off to find a vi book on Amazon]

mastis · 2012-06-16 08:29:36

Nano for the win. Simple as the users who use it.

Ninja-1 · 2012-06-16 17:21:31

I'm also a nano guy on the terminal. Very simple, get's the job done, has some cool .nanorc's for a few extras (like syntax highlighting). Other than that, Eclipse, SciTE, and Leafpad are my most used. I'm looking into Geany because Eclipse is rather bloated and slow, but I won't be able to totally drop Eclipse because of Android development.

handy · 2012-06-16 18:12:58

In Linux I use nano in the terminal - using ~/.bashrc aliases to easily call all of the config files that matter;- leafpad as the default for .txt & such from Worker, & cream (vi with a GUI) if I'm playing around with python or some other strange (in my computing life these days) thing.

For anyone looking to learn vi, this is certainly a great place to start:

http://www.unix-manuals.com/tutorials/v … -10-1.html

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crosenblum · 2012-06-16 23:10:53

Being older than most of you, I could entertain you of the decades of petty, stupid, pointless flame wars I have seen and experienced, way before the internet even existed.

There's a difference between helping each other enjoy and learn the most of a tool, and from having some dumb idea that everyone has to use the same tool as you.

Flame Wars are just pointless. The more you argue in any level of non-civility, the more you point how that someone should never listen to you.

Anyhow i use gedit

Mr Green · 2012-06-17 00:02:28

I use nano for quick editing of files, vi is more powerful via keyboard.

Simply cannot get my left handed brain around it!

scjet · 2012-06-17 06:03:44

"vi" is like "ls", it is just there, built into ALL linux/Unix distro's, you never have to install it. So you better dam well learn how to use it !
hehe - flamearoo.

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crosenblum · 2012-06-17 06:12:35

I listened to Vanilla Ice's song a few times, and ice makes me flame-repellant

scjet · 2012-06-17 06:18:46

just use one of these and you'll all be experts with vi, in no time at all.
I guarantee it !

scjet · 2012-06-17 06:21:14

I agree with you there bud, "V"anilla "I"ce rocks.

crosenblum · 2012-06-17 07:10:44

Ha ha ha lol. That was a good one lol. Btw, do any of you read any of BOFH? Funny stuff.

http://theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh

Mr Green · 2012-06-17 10:28:11

How about I remove vi from ArchBangs next release.....

oliver · 2012-06-17 18:39:08

Mr Green wrote:

How about I remove vi from ArchBangs next release.....

TBH, you probably could. Anyone who wants vi over nano should know how to either use pacman or lookup how to use pacman.

If you really want uproar, only include 'ed'

crosenblum · 2012-06-17 21:03:41

For years I used this window's shareware text editor called textpad. I never liked IDE's, i prefer text editors, but gedit could use a few more feature's like search thru files for text, regex search/replace etc.

Btw what font/size do you like best for working with text?

jdarnold · 2012-06-18 11:29:55

Didn't think I recognized this post

I've been dragging around my .emacs file for more than 20 years. Pretty amazing how crufty it is and yet it still works. And has worked on many different platforms. First thing I install too.

mike4ca · 2012-06-18 11:50:32

crosenblum wrote:

i prefer text editors, but gedit could use a few more feature's like search thru files for text, regex search/replace etc.

You may want to try medit. I have used the regex search and replace. Not sure if it has the other features you are looking for. I use medit on both my linux and windows (work) installations.

axel668 · 2012-06-19 01:51:47

using scite usually, and nano when I can't avoid editing in the console (like AUR scripts, xinitrc, ...).
emacs and vi may be powerful editors for sure,
but not worth the effort for editing a line in a config file once every few weeks.

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scjet · 2012-06-22 16:28:14

... well Linux is so user friendly these days, (depending on your outlook), that your text-editors of choice "really" don't matter anymore, unless certain programmers/dev's actually need "vi", but, for most of us Naaaaaa, they're all good enough to get the job done.
DAM! - I was hoping for a useless flame war, but nope, you guys are all too smart, or resourcesful, or.... whatever.

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doug piston · 2012-06-30 11:10:37

Ninja-1 wrote:

I'm also a nano guy on the terminal. Very simple, get's the job done, has some cool .nanorc's for a few extras (like syntax highlighting). Other than that, Eclipse, SciTE, and Leafpad are my most used. I'm looking into Geany because Eclipse is rather bloated and slow, but I won't be able to totally drop Eclipse because of Android development.

Starting to sound like a broken record here....

Eclim + vim FTW

Mr Green · 2012-06-30 12:21:27

sublime...done!

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