Posix vs. Windows

[Sean Kelly]

On May 19, 2012, at 1:35 PM, "Mehrdad" <wfunction at hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, 19 May 2012 at 20:00:03 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 
>> Yikes! I highly recommend using plain vanilla vim, no GUI
> 
> Oh geez, that'll take a while lol. At least with GVim, I can discover the command names through the menus haha.

The only way to really learn vim is to suffer through it until it clicks. The experience is so fundamentally different than other editors, that menus would just prevent that from happening. That said, some editors, like Sublime Text 2 (my current favorite) have a vi mode that functions pretty closely to how vi does. It's another way to ease your way into the vi mindset, as it were. Personally, I know enough vi to get around but not enough to prefer it. It's simy a matter of necessity though, as vi is the only editor I've found installed on every system I need to edit on. Too bad it couldn't at least be vim though. 
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