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(Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks?

Posted by timothy on from the make-it-roll-over dept.

haroldag writes "I thoroughly enjoyed the recent post about Unix tricks, so I ask Slashdot vim users, what's out there? :Sex, :b#, marks, ctags. Any tricks worth sharing?"

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  1. Re:Just using VIM by Count+Fenring · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You can even get a shiny, aquafied version of GNU Emacs! http://aquamacs.org/.

    I will say that Emacs takes more configuring than most modern single language IDEs. On the other hand, I've spent high multiples of the time I've spent on Emacs just trying to get some of Eclipses more popular plugins to work.

  2. Re:Just using VIM by SL+Baur · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For some odd reason I'm still using XEmacs.

    Because we're very good at what we do?

    Any real Emacs-based editor has the *huge* advantage that you can both tweak behavior very easily and you also can make extensions very easily.

    I've been an Emacs user for over 2 decades now. I haven't seen anything remotely close to making me want to switch[1].

    Of course, I'm biased ...

    [1] If XEmacs were to become suddenly unavailable, I'd use Stallman-Emacs (or grab an old copy of XEmacs 21.1).