Website design : what to use ?

[Brian McKee]

On Saturday 17 June 2006 03:18, OOzy Pal wrote:

> The original post is also a concern for me. Currently, I am using
> Qunata. But really, every question I have seen similar to the original
> post gets a vi as an answer. Is vi that popular?

Yes, vi is that popular.    It's available for everything, and installed 
everywhere but Windows and Mac OS 9 out of the box (and you add it to them 
too)

vi has an odd 'mindset' and a learning curve that starts just about vertical, 
then levels out a bit :-)  but once you 'get it'  it saves more time than you 
would think possible.

I do a couple of small websites and our company's internal website pretty much
entirely in vi.   You get that clean hand-built code, and don't have to change
tools just because you are changing from perl to html to css, and I can edit 
the
code on the server from wherever I happen to be.


> Can someone educate me about vi and vim and the difference between
> them. 

vi is technically the 'old school original program' nobody uses anymore.
vim does everything vi did and adds lots more.  You can even tell vim to
act like it was still vi.  Kinda like sh versus bash I suppose if that means 
anything to you.  gvim might be a more comfortable start if you are a GUI 
user.

> Is there a nice tutorial for vi/vim 
Lots of info out there - vimtutor is how many people get started.
Just remember it will take some patience to get used to it.

You might take a look at http://www.stripey.com/vim/html.html for some .vimrc 
suggestions for html too.


(those brainwashed into the cult of EMACS may attempt to make you believe it
can do some of this kind of stuff too, but don't believe 'em  :-)

Brian

(this mail message composed in vi :-)


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