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> Is there a certain perception of text and text handling by vim people
> which may be distintive different from people who definetly dont like
> vim?
After about 15 years of using vim, the most relevant observation which
penetrates my consciousness is that I use vim for everything, even MSW
documents. (Type them in vim, import to openoffice, set font, etc.,
touching a mouse as little as possible.) That seems indicative of a
perceptual leaning.
Although I am not a touch typist, the keyboard and a fully key-driven
text editor provide a single seamless interface, while mousing in GUIs
mucks things up, first with the task of finding the physical mouse, then
the cursor, then three attempts to highlight just the required text.
The choice of vim is simple; I learnt vi way back when, not emacs.
(Going back to being a beginner again seems rather pointless.) Vim then
influenced my choice of MUA, since mutt supports composing mail in vim.
I could not contemplate using a GUI for mail, or almost anything else.
The ease of manipulating text with grep, awk, and sort, is also
enormously attractive. Not only does that leverage existing knowledge
(avoiding the inefficiency of acquiring and maintaining competing
knowledge bases), but it fits the compelling "Unix _is_ the IDE"
philosophy, which advocates a large suite of compatible simple tools.
If only it supported POSIX EREs, instead of an insular regex dialect, I
think it would be perfect. :-)
Erik
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Emacs is a nice OS - but it lacks a good text editor.
That's why I am using Vim. - Anonymous?
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