Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:13:46 -0400 (EDT) From: David Scheidt <rufus@brain.mics.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: code density vs readability Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.20.0110021606080.7990-100000@brain.mics.net> In-Reply-To: <20011002213051.A28111@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > j mckitrick said on Oct 2, 2001 at 19:59:56: > > Interesting. I know one guy who uses nvi just because of the license. > > I must admit I like the multiple buffer and screen support. I never > > could get vim to do that in regular console mode. Why do you detest it? > > Oh, probably because I was used to vim, I admit... > > That apart, I found vim's "multiple undo" scheme much more sensible > than nvi's. (u for undo, repeatedly if desired, ^R for redo. Also > more compatible with "traditional vi" where u is always undo, but once Bull feathers! That's entirely unlike real vi. That's u undoes, and u again redoes the changes. That's a huge finger macro breakage; I pretty often flip back and forth between changed and unchanged versions (dozens of times a day). nvi's multiple undo with . is completely in line with how vi works. > only.) But my big plus for vim is its paragraph-level operations, eg > gqap for formatting a paragraph. Not a big deal with programs, but a > huge help with text and emails, and even handles quoted email > correctly and is great at unmangling Outlook-generated mail. I don't > think nvi has that; traditional vi doesn't. > I'm not convinced this needs to be part of the editor. Checkout par (ports/textproc/par), I think it does everything vim does. > For programs, I like its syntax highlighting. I don't know whether > nvi has that. I hope not... > > And I think vim does handle multiple buffers in console mode. I > haven't investigated it, when doing "serious" work I'm always running > X and I just find it easier to open two xterms... vim does do multiple buffers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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