Thursday, April 7, 2011

Re: Any non-programmer users of Vim here?

On Apr 7, 2011, at 5:27 PM, Paul Stewart wrote:

> Firstly, I do use vim for programming (mainly php and sql), but, I also use it as a text editor for typing and writing out stuff. For example, I use it to keep minutes of meetings I attend while I am listening....the commands allow me to skip around the page so much faster than if I was using word or another non-vim text editor.
> ....
> Basically, the more you use vim, the faster you become....personally, I try to use it whenever I can...I even use the vimperator plugin for firefox...I am so used to the key movements that I hate using the mouse now, it seems slow and foreign to me, almost frustrating.

Thanks for the encouragement, Paul. Don't use Word, so Viemu would not useful to me, but I did check it out. The emulation of it in use in Visual Studio is fascinating.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
eeweir@bellsouth.net


--
You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist.
Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to.
For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php

No comments: