Comments on: Understanding the “improved” in VIM http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/06/understanding-the-improved-in-vim/ The Super User Community Blog Thu, 23 May 2013 15:40:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Web softwares - Vim | Pearltrees http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/06/understanding-the-improved-in-vim/#comment-5955 Web softwares - Vim | Pearltrees Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:14:38 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4811#comment-5955 [...] Sometimes, every once in a while, a programmer feels like I do. VIM should be more efficient, more effective for editing text files yet I find myself reverting to the modern mouse-based approach more often than not. A rather famous question on Stack Overflow asked for tips on how to be more productive with VIM – and he got one of the best answers I’ve ever seen. Not a list of tips but a working, detailed explanation from Stack Overflow user Jim Dennis . It’s so good, I am copying his answer’s raw source here, running it through the Markdown parser and copied it here. So, without further ado, over to Jim’ amazing answer. Understanding the “improved” in VIM – Super User Blog [...]

]]> By: Steve Rowe http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/06/understanding-the-improved-in-vim/#comment-5890 Steve Rowe Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:39:57 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4811#comment-5890 The sad part is that this information is almost being deleted on StackOverflow. It will soon be lost.

]]> By: Bob Bobson http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/06/understanding-the-improved-in-vim/#comment-5880 Bob Bobson Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:51:42 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4811#comment-5880 Reminds me of Edlin.

]]> By: Alois Mahdal http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/06/understanding-the-improved-in-vim/#comment-5876 Alois Mahdal Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:28:59 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4811#comment-5876 It’s nice to remind this wonderful post by Jim Dennis.

But honestly: Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t really understand the point of re-posting it on this blog. We all live in SU, don’t we?

]]> By: Jay http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/06/understanding-the-improved-in-vim/#comment-5648 Jay Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:22:50 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=4811#comment-5648 one of the improvements i wish vim hadn’t made was break the undo-redo sequence ‘uu’, making it instead of multiple undo. nvi’s solution of ‘u.’ to do multiple undo would have been better.

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