Thursday, November 4, 2021

Re: Vim turns 30 today!

Steve,


On 2021-11-04 20:11, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> Steve,
>
>
> On 2021-11-04 05:38, Steve Litt wrote:
>> 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use said on Wed, 03 Nov 2021 18:48:37 +1100
>>
>>> Yegappan,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2021-11-03 15:21, Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote:
>>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/ql30pm/vim_turns_30_today/
>>>>
>>>> Happy 30th Birthday!!! Thanks Bram.
>>>
>>>
>>> Wow! What a great program! - I don't think I will ever know all
>>> there
>>> is to know about Vim but I keep learning!
>>
>> The absolute truth. I started with regular vi, and Vim was like a
>> breath of fresh air. I use it for everything. My blood pressure
>> journal
>> is maintained with Vim. I use VimOutliner for all my organizational
>> needs. Vim is absolutely indispensable in my workflow.
>
>
> Exactly! Don't forget about VOom! - because of the pain of using the
> primitive built-in bookmarks facility in browsers, sometime ago I
> switched over to using a Vim text file with VOom plugin which is MUCH
> nicer and much more efficient for me - here is a part of my Vim / VOom
> file as an eg:
>
> http://pricom.com.au/2021-11-03_13-41-37_Vim-VOom_Bookmarks.txt.png
>
> and now I am making more use of Vim Browser too!


And also VimWiki !

P.


> Phil.
>
>>> +1 Thanks to Bram!
>>
>> +8030. That's the number of days I've enjoyably used Vim.
>>
>>
>>> Out of interest, I started on Linux with the ~0.9 kernel - I think it
>>> was Soft Landing Linux (?) - was Vim on that distro? (I think SLS
>>> came
>>> on about a dozen 3.5" floppies . . ).
>>
>> I was late to the party with Red Hat 5.1, but better late than never
>> :-)
>>
>> SteveT
>>
>> Steve Litt
>> Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the
>> Successful
>> Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques
>>
>> --

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E-mail: phil@pricom.com.au

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