Re: Suggest a vim task for a college workshop

On 26/08/09 17:48, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
>
> Ben Fritz wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 25, 8:14 pm, Ken Bloom<kbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> When I first got interested in vim, it was because I watched people do
>>> vi's relatively simple navigation things -- being able to move a word at
>>> a time, delete a word, replace a word with simple keystrokes.
>>>
>>> But I don't think these make for a good tutorial.
>>>
>>
>> Agreed. This is why I suggest having them do it with some rudimentary
>> knowledge, then doing it in front of them on a projector or something.
>> They will see all the fancy stuff and a few of them might become
>> interested.
>
> Thanks to everyone for your input. We will probably give them a program
> and a makefile, so they can use make, copen and friends along with
> editing. As it is, many of them come from a background of Borland's C++
> environment, not latest-and-greatest Eclipse and the like, so hopefully
> we'll get a positive response.
>
> Cheers,
> Vlad

Don't deride Turbo C, I used it on Dos and it already had a decent
keyboard-driven editor, plus excellent syntax help on the C language,
and it came with an outstanding debugger.

Best regards,
Tony.
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