text editing in ubuntu

[Brian Clarkson]

Thanks Chris & Hal for the explanations,  That helps me a lot.

Brian

2009/8/5 Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net>

> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 07:05:14PM -0500, Chris Mohler wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Brian Clarkson<brian at clarkson.id.au>
> wrote:
> > > "A simple, sane ~/.vimrc that starts vim in insertmode, and has
> shortcut
> > > keys
> > > for saving/quiting:"
> > >
> > > I am a relative newbie and I don't really understand what the line
> quoted
> > > above means.
> >
> > "Sane" as in "not crazy".  :)
> >
> > I think he was just pointing out that using vim without at least a
> > basic .vimrc file is crazy.  I tend to agree :)
> >
> > And yes "~" indicates the home directory - so the file is
> > '/home/YOURUSER/.vimrc'.
>
> Sorry guys, yes ... to expand a little:
>
> Vim (and the GUI version "gvim") use a configuration file typically named
> ".vimrc", typically located in the the user's $HOME, or ~. There is also
> usually a system wide one in /etc/vimrc, but as pointed out, this generally
> lacks the usability features most people (well, non-vim people) expect in a
> text editor.
>
> Vim is highly customizable, and it does not take much for it to mimic other
> editors. Of course, if you don't know vim, and you want to customize it so
> it
> behaves just as you want, you are once again facing a big learning curve.
> The
> documentation, though quite thorough, can be overwhelming. And if you don't
> know vim or the vim lingo, you are even more challenged. That is why I was
> bemoaning the lack of more "user friendly" vimrc for a default
> installation.
>
> --
> Hal
> Who writes his emails in vim too :wq!
>
>
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