Dummkopf's guide to vim

[Knapp]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Knapp. I was being a bit of a smartass in response to this
> question of yours in the original post:
>> I bet there is not much more that you do with Kate most
>> of the time. Am I wrong?
>
> I am sure that VIM had those features down pat back when Kate was
> called Little Katie and was being picked on in second grade.
>
> Both editors are great and I use them both: Kate when I have a GUI
> Linux machine nearby, and VIM when I have to SSH into the server with
> Putty. Though, I have not done nearly the heavy lifting with VIM as I
> have done with Kate, just small fixes here and there.
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen

There is no doubt that VIM is old school! It has more power that
almost any other piece of software out there due to use by programming
nerds since 1976 vi and then 1991 vim.

VIM is VI with improvements. VI stands for visual editor. IE gui of it's day!

I am going to go and read about the visual mode of VIM because I don't
know it at all.

Best,
-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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