Back to Vim Again

In my never ending pursuit of finding a good text editor on Linux, I tried my best to convert to emacs. I bought the book, saw screencasts, and listened to evangelists. Needless to say, I failed, and came back to the editor I always come back to, Vim.

I love Geany and tried to use it, but my old habits from using Vim makes using a GUI editor somewhat annoying, especially with limited set of features. Netbeans is great but it doesn’t have word wrap feature. What gives?

So, now I’m back to Vim, again. This time around, I decided to make things little prettier with my own syntax highlighting, but I feel like an addict keep falling off the wagon. Who knows, perhaps Vim is a drug.

If you’re starting out and want to find out how it can be used, check out introduction by Justin Lilly at http://justinlilly.com/category/server-admin/vim-server-admin/ where he has a great set of screencasts.

*** Update ***
Justin pulled the screencasts from his site. It appears that he’s moving to emacs. Check out emacs screencast at peepcode.com.

October 12, 2008 | Filed Under Rant

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One Response to “Back to Vim Again”

  1. justinlilly on February 24th, 2009 12:58 am

    Whoops. I’ve actually still got them up there, the links have just changed. SEO fail, eh?

    http://justinlilly.com/blog/tags/vim/

    That being said, I have made the switch to emacs for development work, though I use vim nearly every day still. Anyhow, good luck with your editor journey and feel free to drop a comment on my blog if you have questions.

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