Re: Vim and You

[Lu.]

I tend to prefer emacs when I begin to code, especially with Devel::PerlySense, for its real-time syntax checking, but I occasionnally use vim, and like the fact that it is well integrated with the less pager. It's quicker to do

less foo.pl
v
[editing]
q

than

less foo.pl
q
emacs foo.pl
[editing]
C-x C-s
C-x C-c

especially when you just want to correct a typo.
And vi is quicker to launch, too.

Lu.

[oknow]

but I occasionnally use vim, and like the fact that it is well integrated with the less pager.

less is just calling whatever you have set for the EDITOR environment variable. I have EDITOR set to "emacs -nw" on my workstation, and usually "nano" on most of my servers.

[Lu.]

Thank you for that precision. I didn't read the doc thoroughly enough, it seems... Since the editor is launched by pressing 'v', I had assumed it stood for 'Vi'.

My *Nix-fu is not good enough, have to practice more...

Lu.