On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:39:42 +0000 Keith Edmunds kae@midnighthax.com allegedly wrote:
Highly recommended reading for users of any text editor (not just Vim) is Bram Moolenaar's (the author of Vim) "Seven habits of effective text editing" (http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html).
Thanks for that Keith. I hadn't seen it before. An interesting read.
And as a confirmed vi fan and emacs avoider (let's face it, you are either Rolling Stones, or Beatles) I particularly liked "Another tendency is to include all kinds of functionality inside the editor; Emacs is a good example of where this can end up."
(with apologies for the flame bait.....)
Mick
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