Re: Source code editor
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 08:23:49PM +0100, Mark Clarkson wrote:
> Hi Tero,
> Vim is great for this but has a steep learning curve. Vim is also tuned for
> touch typists, which eventually pushed me into learning touch typing, which
> is great, especially for night time coding. One really simple and often
> overlooked feature is being able to view source code in two columns, which
> is something I've never seen in graphical IDEs - for this reason I always
> make my code fit into 80 cols and have 4 character tabs. Ctags and Cscope
> are supported natively so jumping to functions/definitions is easy.
> Syntax highlighting is good, it now has a form of 'intellisense' and
> tabs in version 7, plus excellent regular expression search/replace,
> multi-branch undo, keystroke recording (I use alot) and a great diff
> viewer (invoked with vimdiff usually). It also does the things you
> mentioned!
Also, look through /etc/vim/vimrc for options to comment out, like
to have Vim jump to the last position when reopening a file
--
Chris.
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