Re:Why football (soccer) isn't more popular in N.A
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IT Meets the World Cup
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I think you hate what you don't understand. I took the time to
check out American Football once. If you think World Football
looks stupid from the outside, I won't even start talking about
how stupid American Football does. But it *is* an interesting
game, after all.
World Football has lots of strategy. But you don't get to see it
unless you get into it. Sorry.
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2: VIM is highly customizeable in the coding sense; its designers have considered every possible preference a programmer might have wrt indentation, for instance, and documented them so that it's a lesson for anyone to read about it in the docs.
3: VIM is highly customizeable in the interface sense. You can bind the combinations you want to do the things you want in the modes you want.
3: VIM customization is highly documented. VIM is arguably the best FLOSS project wrt documentation. That's a great example for other FLOSS projects to follow.
4: You can study VIM for years, and it will still amaze you from time to time with a special feature/option. It's got an incredible, I mean, incredible, amount of functionality, and it's such a lean program... to the point where comparing it to vi is almost outrageous. People, we're on the age of VIM. vi is a dinossaur.
Really, you can't tell from the outside how great VIM is. I probably know VIM better than 90% of the users I know, and it still impresses me. You need to use it to understand. And the drive to use it comes from seing someone use it and edit code so fast that you can't follow, with the core commands for moving around, and the registers, and visual modes.. not everyone can foresee how good it is without that, because it is HARD to get into. But a lot of people, me included, will say it's worth it.
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I think you hate what you don't understand. I took the time to check out American Football once. If you think World Football looks stupid from the outside, I won't even start talking about how stupid American Football does. But it *is* an interesting game, after all.
World Football has lots of strategy. But you don't get to see it unless you get into it. Sorry.
1: VIM is amazing for editing code. It's got a beautiful plugin system, built
upon a scripting language which got closer to perfection in VIM7. That makes
it so that, as emacs, it has special modes designed for your favourite languages.
2: VIM is highly customizeable in the coding sense; its designers have considered
every possible preference a programmer might have wrt indentation, for instance,
and documented them so that it's a lesson for anyone to read about it in the docs.
3: VIM is highly customizeable in the interface sense. You can bind the combinations
you want to do the things you want in the modes you want.
3: VIM customization is highly documented. VIM is arguably the best FLOSS project
wrt documentation. That's a great example for other FLOSS projects to follow.
4: You can study VIM for years, and it will still amaze you from time to time with
a special feature/option. It's got an incredible, I mean, incredible, amount of
functionality, and it's such a lean program... to the point where comparing it to
vi is almost outrageous. People, we're on the age of VIM. vi is a dinossaur.
Really, you can't tell from the outside how great VIM is. I probably know VIM better
than 90% of the users I know, and it still impresses me. You need to use it to
understand. And the drive to use it comes from seing someone use it and edit code
so fast that you can't follow, with the core commands for moving around, and the
registers, and visual modes.. not everyone can foresee how good it is without that,
because it is HARD to get into. But a lot of people, me included, will say it's worth
it.
Regards
VIM has had visual mode for quite some time. There're 3 types:
:))
Visual mode(v), Visual line mode(V) and Visual block mode(C-v)
I think Visual line mode will be perfect for what you want.
Type V, then go down some lines(with j or Down), then y.
(Don't underestimate VIM.
Regards