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I was wondering what people's thoughts were about Vim: what are the
advantages to using it, as opposed to just using a text editor like
PSPad?

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xtort
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xtort said:
I was wondering what people's thoughts were about Vim: what are the
advantages to using it, as opposed to just using a text editor like
PSPad?
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There is a difference between Vim and GVim, which you did not specify.
GVim is Vim with a GUI, which is what most windows users would use.

Some might say the differences are:
1) PSPad has a tabbed interface. (GVim has a plugin that can do this).
2) PSPad has a spell checker. Again, GVim has a plugin that you can
configure to work with Aspell, or make it work with the M$ Word Grammar
and Spelling Checker.

I come from a mixed Windows and Unix background so VI I was already use
to, but I use the "Windows" settings for the most part (Ctrl-c, Ctrl-v,
etc.) I prefer GVim cuz it's light, fast, solid. And very flexible if I
need it to be. It's an editor that once you get use to using it, it
works for all text based situations.

The truth is, I have many editors that I enjoy using from time to time.
My "big" editor is Crisp. I like Notepad++ (very pretty editor), SciTE
and EmEditor. I have over 30 editors sitting in my editors directory...

One thing that I do not like is an editor with a serious bug. PSPad has
a serious bug (IMHO) as I stated below in an earlier thread. Don't get
me wrong, I used to use PSPad until I ran into this bug.

I think it's *really* a matter of what WORKS FOR YOU. If notepad works,
then use it.
 
xtort says:
I was wondering what people's thoughts were about Vim: what are the
advantages to using it, as opposed to just using a text editor like
PSPad?
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I like the syntax highlighting functionality, it is useful when programming.

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I was wondering what people's thoughts were about Vim: what are the
advantages to using it, as opposed to just using a text editor like
PSPad?
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vim is very good for programming. It supports coloring and smart
indenting for hundreds of languages, and has many plugins for
compilers, xml/html, etc. It also supports intellisense (for windows
only) and auto-complete the words that you previously typed. And vim
will never die.

pspad is just another simple editor... no good. If you want an easy
and powerful editor, I suggest Alphatk.
 
I prefer Xemacs, which is all-singing, all-dancing.

Now, where did I put that asbestos suit?
 
One thing that I do not like is an editor with a serious bug. PSPad has
a serious bug (IMHO) as I stated below in an earlier thread. Don't get
me wrong, I used to use PSPad until I ran into this bug.
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Would you mind describing the bug you found in PSPad. I use it and so far I
haven't had any problems. It's probably that I haven't used the feature
with the bug. Thanks in advance.

Bob
 
pspad is just another simple editor... no good. If you want an easy
and powerful editor, I suggest Alphatk.
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I just downloaded Alphatk v8.3 for Windows. The launch systematically crashes.
 
Antoine said:
I just downloaded Alphatk v8.3 for Windows. The launch
systematically crashes.
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It finally worked. It looks very well featured but :
- interface is somewhat original with a floating menu bar
- most of the shortcuts are unconventionnally settled
 
litefoot said:
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Would you mind describing the bug you found in PSPad. I use it and so far I
haven't had any problems. It's probably that I haven't used the feature
with the bug. Thanks in advance.

Bob
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Here is my own quote from the "other" newest pspad thread:

"Did the developer finally fix the problem with line wrapping and the
search list? It would get messed up if you had line numbering turned on
with line wrapping and performed a search. The search list would have
the wrong line numbers listed and if you clicked on them, it would take
you to the wrong line. This has been a problem for a *long* time and the
developer said that it was a hard problem to fix.".
 
Regarding the steep learning curve for vim, there is a configuration of
vim available called cream that is supposed to turn vim into an
easy-to-use editor similar to common text editors that many people
are already familiar with. I have never tried it since I already
know vi but you might check out:

http://cream.sourceforge.net/


Thanks for the responses. The main thing that is the barrier to Vim
and even Emacs is the learning curve from what I can see.


best,
xtort
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Mark Carter said:
I prefer Xemacs, which is all-singing, all-dancing.

Now, where did I put that asbestos suit?
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