From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 14 14:55:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22079 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 14:55:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA22048 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 14:55:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from (ragnet.demon.co.uk) [158.152.46.40] by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0ya5yK-0007jM-00; Thu, 14 May 1998 22:55:29 +0100 Received: from dmlb by ragnet.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0ya5Rk-0006V4-00; Thu, 14 May 1998 22:21:48 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 22:21:47 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Opinion on editors (vile and vim) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi I don't want to start a flame fest; just trying to work out whether switching to Vim-5.x from Vile-7.x is worth it. I have been using Vile for the past few years and I am comfortable with its approach to the "Vi" extras (selections, scripting language...) Vim is similar in functionality but does seem to have a very different way of dealing with selections. I think I might like the syntax highlighting in Vim; Vile has this but it uses an external filter program thus Vile highlights don't update as you are editing. What are your opinions on syntax highlighting? Is it worth the grief to switch editors just to get Vim's dynamic highlighting? Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message