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What is/are your replacement(s) for VIM?
by virtualwhys 13y ago
What is/are your replacement(s) for VIM?
- lutusp 13y ago> What is/are your replacement(s) for VIM? Anything at all. Kate. KWrite. Gedit. The programming editors built into Netbeans and Eclipse. My own (free) program Arachnophilia (http://arachnoid.com/arachnophilia http://arachnoid.com/arachnophilia), a sort of a descendant of Apple Writer, but much improved and with support for many document types. Essentially anything. All the above choices take advantage of the modern computing environment. That by itself sets them apart from vi/vim.
- virtualwhys 13y agoYah, I'm on Eclipse (Kepler) for Scala development, but VIM bindings are more efficient editing-wise, IMO. I would choose VIM over Gedit simply because remote servers tend to have vi/vim installed out of the box, not to mention the fact that Gedit is to me not really all that great (perhaps a bit better than M$'s Wordpad). VIM is my default editor for sysadmin work; for coding it's Eclipse for server-side and Aptana for client-side (which I guess is Eclipse under the hood, just not as bloated).