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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).

6 of 585 comments (clear)

  1. This announcement is flamebait by CyberGarp · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And thus another round of Emacs Versus Vi begins.

    >

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    I used to wonder what was so holy about a silent night, now I have a child.
  2. No holy war by nthobe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    He's just right.

  3. NEdit!!!!! by CaptIronfist · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Nedit Rocks my .... ;)

    Anybody knows the definition of 'sarcasm' ?

  4. Not to start a flame war;) by dfelznic · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Hello,
    If you are going to put an editor story on slashdot you know that you are going to start a editor war. So I thought I would offer my two cents. I like nano the enhanced pico. It is small lightwieght and has search and replace. Perfect for editing config files...

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    Douglas Calvert
  5. One War at a time, Please by Alien54 · · Score: 1, Redundant
    It is enough that we have the war on terrorism. we also have the war on drugs, the wart on Microsoft (typo left in), and the browser wars.

    now we get to stir up the editor wars and the distro wars.

    This keeps up, and I'll have a reason to be at war with just about everyone I run into.

    Time to call a time-out.

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    "It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
  6. Mirrors by meni · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If you're downloading, use a mirror. The list is available here.

    In case the server is still under the /. effect, here are some mirrors for you to try:

    ftp://ftp.home.vim.org/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp.au.vim.org/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp.be.com/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp.ca.vim.org/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp.de.vim.org/misc/editors/vim/
    ftp://ftp.berlin.de.vim.org/misc/editors/vim/
    ftp://ftp.musin.de/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp.dk.vim.org/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp.es.vim.org/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp.fr.vim.org/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp.fr2.vim.org/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp.gr.vim.org/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp.hu.vim.org/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp.jp.vim.org/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp.tokio.jp.vim.org/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp2.jp.vim.org/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp.kr.vim.org/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp.mx.vim.org/
    ftp://ftp.nl.vim.org/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp2.nl.vim.org/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp.pl.vim.org/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp.ci.uminho.pt/pub/editors/vim/
    ftp://ftp.za.vim.org/applications/editors/vim/
    ftp://ftp.ca.us.vim.org/pub/vim/
    ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/unixfreeware/editors/vim/
    ftp://ftp.nasa.us.vim.org/pub/unix/vim
    ftp://ftp.mi.us.vim.org/mirrors/vim/
    ftp://ftp.ny.us.vim.org/editors/vim/
    ftp://ftp.il.us.vim.org/packages/vim/
    ftp://ftp2.wa.us.vim.org/pub/vim/