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VI is driving me crazy

Published 1 year, 3 months ago in PHP Digg This

<rant>VI sucks! It is absolutely driving me crazy. It’s like writing code by smashing your head against the keyboard with a blind fold. </rant>

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  1. 1 will Jun 11th, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    Sounds like you need an improved .vimrc file. Shoot me an email if you want an example. I use vim all day every day with php xhtml css, and I love it.

    Whee! Console rules!

  2. 2 Glen Campbell Jun 13th, 2007 at 10:09 am

    Sorry to disagree with you, but a program that has had hundreds of thousands of loyal users for the last -35- years can’t be all bad. Read this to help you get started:

    http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html

  3. 3 David G. Paul Jun 20th, 2007 at 12:11 am

    I think vim is great!

    Maybe he actually IS using vi instead of vim, as that had dreadful keyboard mappings

  4. 4 Ted Jun 20th, 2007 at 7:23 am

    VIM is cool, but VI is the one that was killing me. I picked up the habit of typing VI from a certain person who should remain anonymous, Glen, that likes that god awful program. Luckily, my kvetching got another programmer to introduce me to Pico. Which I actually like quite a bit.

    How to install Pico: http://www.dedicated-resources.com/guide/22/How-To-Install-PICO-Editor.html

    and then pico ~/.bashrc
    insert alias vi=pico

    voila, vi is banished forever

  5. 5 Michael East Oct 23rd, 2007 at 6:49 am

    I’m not much of a fan of VI, it’s better then nothing, but there are better editors available.

    I use Joe’s own editor (joe): http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/
    it has some nice features and the keyboard mappings are much nicer then VI :-)

  6. 6 Kent Brewster Nov 19th, 2007 at 4:45 pm

    Preach it, reverend … using VI is like trying to change the sheets in a hotel room by poking a bent coat hanger in through the keyhole. WinSCP PuTTY TextPad = much less stress.

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