From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 20 5:24: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4113837BC92 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 05:22:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 7105 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2000 12:21:43 -0000 Received: from sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.27) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 20 Apr 2000 12:21:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 6000 invoked by uid 211); 20 Apr 2000 12:21:42 -0000 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:51:41 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Alexander Langer Cc: Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ViM vs. Emacs Message-ID: <20000420175141.B5893@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Alexander Langer , Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000419103521.A2972@cichlids.cichlids.com> <8dlokp$1kr8$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <20000420133751.A517@cichlids.cichlids.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000420133751.A517@cichlids.cichlids.com>; from alex@big.endian.de on Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 01:37:51PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alexander Langer said on Apr 20, 2000 at 13:37:51: > Also sprach Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de): > > > On all those Red Hat/Mandrake Linux boxes "vi" is vim by default. > > Very painful, if you are used to nvi from BSD. A few days ago I > > What do you use what ViM does not provide? Some things like multiple-level undo/redo work differently. I like vim's way of doing that better. Depends what you're used to, I suppose. But on vim, you can recover your unmodified document by pressing u again and again: on nvi I think the ability to recover past changes is more limited. Also, does nvi do things like formatting of paragraphs after they're already written, visual block copying of text (eg picking out only columns 7 to 12 of these four lines and placing them in an arbitrary place as below), etc? Or syntax highlighting? does n y writ s 7 to as bel > > vim on a BSD box where there's a perfectly functional nvi is just > > repugnant. It's silly to say things like that, or "vim sucks", but I suppose the original mail started it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message