vi
and for the windows people that want vi and other unixy stuff, but can't bring themselves to have anything non-microsoft (or alternatively, the people that "had" to install *nix to have the goodies they like), there's
"windows services for unix" as a free MS package
Not sure about 100% implementation, but it has everything I'm used to
and for the windows people that want vi and other unixy stuff, but can't bring themselves to have anything non-microsoft (or alternatively, the people that "had" to install *nix to have the goodies they like), there's
"windows services for unix" as a free MS package
Not sure about 100% implementation, but it has everything I'm used to
notepad its readily available and works fine only problom is size limitations then you can use wordpad.
Pretty sure I remember there being some sort of plugin or something that made the editor act like vi. Very foggy in the memory though, I could be totally off.
I personally use UltraEdit. I just leave it open all the time and ctrl-n when a need a new note, txt file, whatever. Column mode is useful, as is the syntax highlighting. One of the few programs worth paying for.
For all the people advocating vi, I'm surprised that no one has bothered to defend their choice. Why do people like it so much, other than just being cool Linux guys?
For all the people advocating vi, I'm surprised that no one has bothered to defend their choice. Why do people like it so much, other than just being cool Linux guys?
Defend against what? We like it, that's all that really matters. It takes some work to be good with, but it pays for itself in power and productivity. And it's not uncommon for windows people to take a liking to gvim without hardly using linux. Don't be such a jerk.
Nothinman
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Agreed.
Yea, but it was really bad. Instead of replacing the editor in the UI with the OLE control from gvim it just spawned it as an external editor, IIRC.
As Bing said there's not much reason to defend it, a lot of people cringe when they see 'vi' just because they accidentally started it once years ago and never figured out how to exit it properly. But for most Linux people some vi is forced on you eventually when you need to fix something, but if you take the time to learn the editor it's amazing what you can do. regexp, syntax highlighting, execute shell commands on the buffer, split windows, multiple copy/yank registers, autoformatting, repeat command, keyword completion, etc. That and its many times faster than notepad, just doing a simple search and replace on a large file will take notepad minutes when it'll take gvim seconds.
There's no reason not to try it, it's free and once you learn how to use it properly you'll never want another editor =) I'm 99% sure the win32 gvim port comes wtih vimtutor.
HeroOfPellinor
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On the mac: BBEdit and vi
On unix: Nedit and vi
ON windows: Crimson Editor and the VS text editor, and occasionally Eclipse.
On unix: Nedit and vi
ON windows: Crimson Editor and the VS text editor, and occasionally Eclipse.
Under Win32 I tend to use Notepad for really simple stuff like taking notes(who woulda thunk it), and Gvim for anything else.
Under Linux I tend to use vim mostly, Kate sometimes.
Under Solaris it's always vim, same with OpenBSD.
Under Linux I tend to use vim mostly, Kate sometimes.
Under Solaris it's always vim, same with OpenBSD.
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