From: Stefan Schmiedl <s@...>
Date: 2005-08-31T03:31:25+09:00
Subject: Re: vim user switch to emacs?

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:37:54 +0900, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:

> Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT <jupp@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> When people hear me say "Emacs is great. It only lacks a good editor."
>> they first think that is meant to be a funny remark. It is not. Emacs
>> is a great program I use for many tasks but when it comes to quite
>> advanced editing tasks I usually save the file, do the complex editing
>> in vim, then switch back to Emacs.
>
> Hmm, I'm curious.  Can you show me a sample task that made you switch
> to vim?

The global command, for example:

:%g/\[CRON\]/d   deletes all (uninteresting) cron entries in my auth.log

:%g/Customer$/s/\([^ ]*\) \([^ ]*\)/&2, &1/g
.... give and take a few \ in front of parentheses ...
exchanges the first and second space delimited word in lines ending with Customer

Being able to record arbitrary command sequences like (not a real life example)
df.3j04 p (cut upto and including . and paste the deletion 3 lines down after column 4)

and of course my favourite vim application: vimoutliner (www.vimoutliner.org)

all of this without breaking my fingers because of the unlucky positioning of CTRL.

s.