As a programmer, text editor is one of our best friends (if not the best). I use TextMate as my development tool. But lately, I started to get serious using Vim. I know Vim back in the days, but always feel awkward using it for daily basis.
After seeing screencast from Derek Wyatt, I think I started to like it. It just seems faster.
Well, I’m not going into Vim vs Emacs. I just like Vim better.
So, is it faster for me? Nope. Why? Because I’m newbie, I still need to memorize things, shortcuts. I just hope if I started to using Vim now, a few months later I’ll get somewhere.
What editor do you use?
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Hi Gilang, I use Textpad++ and PHPStorm. (see how long that took to write, ouch)
From the video, seems like vim can do everything and anything.
Lately I’ve been battling with intellisense for CI. Auto loaded stuff is not sensed. DB active record not sensed from models.
I’m way out of his league as I work on small projects by my self, hoping to change that soon and I’m sure vim will come in handy. Specially as I get more familiar with Git and Github where I use Git Bash console :)
Question: can vim search for text in all open files? I love that feature in DreamWeaver. Sometimes I’m going through 5 or more files to update an app feature and looking for a word or variable name appearing only in those 5 files comes in handy. I’m sure it does, coz vim seems to do everything heheh.
q2: Can I highlight text with mouse in vim, and drag drop holding ctrl key so that it copies to dropped location!? heheh
Snippets are a must too. I’m using autohotkey, and PHPStorm has some cool stuff it does with this too.
Wonder how long it takes to configure vim to be a good time saver? :-/
Like the site.
Cheers,
Chris D.
1. yes, I guess it could by using a plugin
2. highlight text is possible, but I don’t know with dragging text.
yes, there is a snippet plugin too. I’ll talk about in another post after I have mastered some basic skills. :)
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