Friday, August 21, 2009

New to Vim -- an introduction

Hi all,

I just began using Vim about two weeks ago, and oh how I wish I broke
down and tried it 10 years ago.

Seems as though it fit right into my work style, as I don't feel as
though I had a learning curve at all.

Vim is an absolutely fantastic piece of software. Words can not describe
how ecstatic I am about the features it has, and I'm still just doing
basic stuff! (folds, marks, split-screen, commands-within-editor,
inserting data from other files/commands etc).

Today I went over the entire wiki, and read at least 60 of the tips. A
fair number of them I inserted into my config file.

I'm a network engineer at a small Canadian ISP, who heavily favours
FreeBSD. Over the years I've written some C and Perl code, and over the
last couple of years (particularly the last couple of months) been doing
extensive Perl development.

Anyway, I'm glad to be on the list, and I hope that over time I can give
back even just a fraction of what I already feel I'll take from the list.

Cheers!

Steve

ps. I'd like to thank the boys over on fbsd-q who provided much
off-topic help regarding Vim, particularly Frank, who openly stated that
he belonged to this list, and provided details about it.

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