From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2008-08-09T13:39:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby IDE

On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 01:39 +0900, Jayson Williams wrote:
> 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.

Gvim on Windows has a more-or-less full-featured menu, mouse, etc. GUI.
You can, if you want, use Gvim like Notepad. ;)

Except Notepad won't save a file with Unix line endings. ;)
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