Monday, June 18, 2018

Re: Is it a matter of Unix ABC, B-A-BA', basics, school stuff, RTFM ?

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 2:16 PM, <arocker@vex.net> wrote:
>> Vim is the right tool to write (and sometimes to read as well).
>>
>
> If it's a text file, (which almost all unix files are), Vim is the right
> tool to produce it. It can be used in read-only mode, if you're afraid of
> accidental modifications. An alternative for that job would be "less",
> (akak "more").
>
> Where appearance is of the essence, e.g.CSS, you might want to use a
> WYSIWYG tool, but for pure content, Vim's still good. (Especially if you
> set it up to wrap tags, &c.
>
Even when appearance is important, e.g. HTML+CSS, I still use Vim (or
gvim), then I watch in a browser how it looks like. In my experience,
WISYWYG HTML editors add spurious elements here and there, and most of
them produce bad quality non-W3C-compliant HTML. With Vim I can tune
the source text however I want.

Of course, this group's old-timers are also long-time Vim users. It
_is_ possible edit one's text with emacs, Notepad, gedit, and others,
but of course you won't find help about them here.

Best regards,
Tony.

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