Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 04:43 GMT, Bill Moseley penned:
>
> I could not agree more. I just need to become efficient enough with
> vim to feel like it's not more work than using another editor. With
> nano when I add some text to a paragraph and need to re-justify I just
> hit ^J. In Vim I'm hitting Esc+g+q+a+p and then I forget to move back
> into insert mode and start typing. Hard to believe that's how others
> are using vim.
>
I love vim, but for the most basic tasks, it *is* more work than
using a simpler editor, like pico or dosedit. The thing is, as soon as
you add even the teensiest wrinkle to what you want to do, the
full-featured editor wins, hands-down.
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