vi's interface may certainly be unintuitive, and for people who aren't programming or something of that ilk, it doesn't make sense to use it. However, for a programmer, vi can make your life incredibly easy, and I don't agree that it's outmoded, new features like omnicompletion, and relatively mature ones like parentheses matching and syntax highlighting are all things that to a unix hacker of eld, would have seemed as resource hungry and frivolous as all the new desktop eye-candy around nowadays. But they're things that noone bats an eyelid at today (well, the omnicompletion kinda made me bat a few though:)
The fact is, that it's a dream come true for someone who might want to quickly and easily search and replace a certain function appearing in certain contexts with other instances of the same string all about the place in different contexts. This may be something that is more to do with regexes, but this is also something that seems like an incredibly archaic pita to learn, but they actually make your like so easy once you can harness the power. (anyway that kind of example might be better with something like sed or awk if you have loads of source files to do, but yeah, it's all part of the dark side of the force). With vim, you start to find that so many things can be with much fewer keypresses, hence, for certain people, vi is much much easier than the intuitive editors which make even slightly complex jobs an absolute nightmare
If you have complicated needs, then you may need a complicated beast like vi/m, if not, then I'd say you're better off without, and I don't think i'm being elitist in saying that. I don't recommend vi to anyone who isn't interested. I'm not a vi zealot, i'm a vi disciple:)
Btw, i'm no guru, i've never used ed, but I appreciate the historical reasons for the way that vi is as well as appreciating the fact that it can bring so much power to my fingertips.
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vi's interface may certainly be unintuitive, and for people who aren't programming or something of that ilk, it doesn't make sense to use it. However, for a programmer, vi can make your life incredibly easy, and I don't agree that it's outmoded, new features like omnicompletion, and relatively mature ones like parentheses matching and syntax highlighting are all things that to a unix hacker of eld, would have seemed as resource hungry and frivolous as all the new desktop eye-candy around nowadays. But they're things that noone bats an eyelid at today (well, the omnicompletion kinda made me bat a few though:)
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The fact is, that it's a dream come true for someone who might want to quickly and easily search and replace a certain function appearing in certain contexts with other instances of the same string all about the place in different contexts. This may be something that is more to do with regexes, but this is also something that seems like an incredibly archaic pita to learn, but they actually make your like so easy once you can harness the power. (anyway that kind of example might be better with something like sed or awk if you have loads of source files to do, but yeah, it's all part of the dark side of the force). With vim, you start to find that so many things can be with much fewer keypresses, hence, for certain people, vi is much much easier than the intuitive editors which make even slightly complex jobs an absolute nightmare
If you have complicated needs, then you may need a complicated beast like vi/m, if not, then I'd say you're better off without, and I don't think i'm being elitist in saying that. I don't recommend vi to anyone who isn't interested. I'm not a vi zealot, i'm a vi disciple
Btw, i'm no guru, i've never used ed, but I appreciate the historical reasons for the way that vi is as well as appreciating the fact that it can bring so much power to my fingertips.
Apple do seem to have a nasty little habit of denying that there are problems with their products. For instance
1) iPod Nano screens cracking and scratching
admitted after a long while. Also a class action law suit filed and won.
2) iBook batteries melting
batteries recalled.
3) iPod shuffle generation 1 and the dreaded error 1418
recently admitted with the release of a reset tool, after stoically denying a problem existed
And now they staunchly deny that there is a problem with the iTunes website. All a bit underhand methinks.
This is more correct in this day and age ;)
"".join(map(chr, (0x41,0x4E,0x55,0x53)))
and score 5 insightful!?!?!?