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VIM 6.0 is Out

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the best-text-editor-in-the-world dept.

LinuxNews.pl writes "It's more then a year after releasing the first 6.0 alpha. Lot's of improvements (i.e. you can edit files via FTP!) - check them out on vim.org" Of course everyone knows that vim is the best text editor in the world. Anyone who tells you differently is either wrong, lying, or criminally insane. (Or an emacs user, in which case they are wrong, lying and criminally insane).

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  1. Vi, NOT vim! by EvlPenguin · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I've used the original vi for as long as I can remember, but I absolutely cannot stand vim. After toying with it for a few minutes, and realizing the ^O command didn't work in input mode, i then tested the :q! function, which did infact work.

    Use elvis. It's just a better editor.

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  2. vi for emacs by Mike+Schiraldi · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    For those of us who use emacs, there's a great simulation available of the vi experience. (Check out the parent directory of that URL for more of the same)

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  3. The Cuckoo's Egg by Mad+Marlin · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Does anybody remember The Cuckoo's Egg, a book from about 10 years ago, based on actual events, where a hacker (don't give me any of that hacker/cracker nonsense) used a security hole in GNU-Emacs to break into military servers holding nuclear weapons information to give to the Russians? Notice that he wasn't using vi.

    :%s/emacs/vi/g

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  4. hmm, smaller programs by Sludge · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    Oh what? Since when do you have to release a new version of your text editor to get features like working over ftp? :) People blame emacs all the time for being one monolithic bloated program, when in fact it's far more modular than the lesser text editors that other people settle for.

    Calling emacs one big monolithic program is only true if you couldn't peel off the layers of LISP code that you may not require. It'd be like calling Linux bloated because it comes with ALL the GNU tools.

  5. Re:Real Programmers... by codingOgre · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    * Don't care about grammar either!

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  6. Re:Real Programmers... by Guignol · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Also, Real programmers doesn't spell
    closer and closer ;)

  7. Re:Flaimbait! by -cryodragon- · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    If that isn't flaimbait, then what is!?
    This is flamebait:

    You can't spell "flaimbait".[sic] Try learning to spell.