Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Re: Do developers use vim exclusively or alternate with an IDE?

  On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 12:58 +1300, Sam Bituser wrote:    > Often the transition between mouse and keyboard is worst. My clients  > often sends content in the form of a word document and alt + tabbing,  > selecting text and moving back feels bad. And often the actual pasting  > is an issue for me. Sometimes I paste only to find I have the wrong  > register or somehow the clipboard has been cleared    what i usually do...    MS-DOC -> File Save as Text File.    vi myfile.txt MS-DOC.txt  (split and show both files or open in multiple tabs)    yank and put from MS-DOC.txt to myfile.txt as needed    reid      

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