From: Jayson Williams <williams.jayson@...>
Date: 2008-08-09T01:39:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby IDE

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Dana Merrick <dmerrick@ics.com> wrote:
> If you're gonna go with Vim, I highly recommend you buy O'Reilly's book on
> learning Vi/Vim. Vi isn't like any other text editors that you have used
> before.
>
> That being said, I encourage you to learn Vi, for in my opinion it is one of
> the most valuable skills a programmer can have.

Thanks Dana,
I've played with Vi while getting my feet wet with Linux, some time
ago. I agree Vi is not like anything you would traditionally find on
Windows systems. I just installed gvim, and when I opened it up, for
the first time, I let out a slight gasp. I had forgotten how 'textual'
Vi is (even in gvim). No pretty windowed help screen, no pop up
alerts, just text. The up side is that Vi brings out a touch Spartan
in me, which is nice from time to time.

Thanks for the heads up Dana
~Jay