Ubuntu is fun - Page 2

LeperousDust · 21-10-2007, 21:45

God emacs, thats what were told to use here at uni, i really don't get on well with it i must say...

Garp · 21-10-2007, 22:35

I've been forced away from Nano and on to VIM by my colleagues, on pain of death

It's now getting to be natural for me to use vi / vim but it is a little counter-intuitive no matter what anyone says. Nano is easy for anyone to use. However, vi is the only tool I can guarantee will be on any of our boxes as its part of the standard build of every *nix distro, be it Linux, FreeBSD or Solaris, which Nano isn't.

Jasper · 22-10-2007, 16:25

have to say I like the fact that I just updated to 7.10 and everything went off without a hitch - I was really expecting problems, but it's all fine! and I found Geany, which is about a billion times better than gphpedit and by far the best text editor I've used on linux. what a happy day!!

still yet to try vim though - discovered they bundle it with OSX, so I might give it a go later

Garp · 22-10-2007, 20:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jasper

still yet to try vim though - discovered they bundle it with OSX, so I might give it a go later

Good luck

This will help:

http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html

and this image:

Jasper · 22-10-2007, 20:33

good grief! :/

thanks mate - don't know what I'd do without that!!

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Garp Preparing more tumbleweed Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Hawaii Posts: 6,038	I've been forced away from Nano and on to VIM by my colleagues, on pain of death It's now getting to be natural for me to use vi / vim but it is a little counter-intuitive no matter what anyone says. Nano is easy for anyone to use. However, vi is the only tool I can guarantee will be on any of our boxes as its part of the standard build of every nix distro, be it Linux, FreeBSD or Solaris, which Nano isn't. __________________ Mal: Define "interesting"? Wash*: "Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die"?

22-10-2007, 16:25	#13
Jasper Simple & Red Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 535	have to say I like the fact that I just updated to 7.10 and everything went off without a hitch - I was really expecting problems, but it's all fine! and I found Geany, which is about a billion times better than gphpedit and by far the best text editor I've used on linux. what a happy day!! still yet to try vim though - discovered they bundle it with OSX, so I might give it a go later

22-10-2007, 20:33	#15
Jasper Simple & Red Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 535	good grief! :/ thanks mate - don't know what I'd do without that!!