[Cialug] CIALUG gently turned me into a comprehensive vimmer (was: lsof! grep?)

[David Champion]

You vi users should try this out...

http://wordwarvi.sourceforge.net/

I wanted to try it, but didn't have the right libs to get it to compile. 
Watch the video anyway, it looks like a fun game, with some funny vi vs. 
emacs jokes in it.

-dc

Nathan Stien wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Chris Freeman <cwfreeman at gmail.com 
> <mailto:cwfreeman at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > <flame on>This is because VIM is the end-all and be-all of 
> editors.</flame no>
>
> Ha, while I certainly agree with that sentiment, I am always relieved 
> to find how civilized and non-flameful this LUG is.  :-)
>
> I was an emacs guy until I met all these (exceedingly nice and 
> non-pushy) Vim users at the meetings and decided to roll up my sleeves 
> and fire up vimtutor.  I have not once run emacs since that day.  I 
> have no vitriol for emacs; I just found out I personally work faster 
> with a modal input scheme rather than chording, once I climbed the 
> learning curve.  I even set readline (and hence bash, ipython, ghci, 
> etc.) to vi-mode in my ~/.inputrc so I could port my vi "muscle 
> memory" to everything else.  Works well for me, YMMV.
>
> Now if only the various half-complete attempts at making a 
> standardized Vim-alike editor component for KDE would work out...  
> KVimPart is long dead, and I haven't had the spare time to try to 
> build Yzis (terrible name), since AFAIK they don't have the KDE glue 
> worked out yet.
>
> - Nathan
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