Re: [gtk-list] Re: vi bindings for text widgets
- From: Didimo Emilio Grimaldo Tunon <emilio_tunon nl compuware com>
- To: gtk-list redhat com
- Subject: Re: [gtk-list] Re: vi bindings for text widgets
- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 12:18:30 +0200 (METDST)
>
> Rude answers to that last question to /dev/null please!
The kernel has been 'compromised' and /dev/null is now something else
but a black hole :-) but this is not a rude answer (you can now
push the Valium away :-)
> Please, no!
I say the same.
> Why can we never break with the past and move forwards? Vi and Emacs and
That's right, quite agree on that but...
> other such things were fine in their time, i.e the late 1970's and early
I still think VI is a great editor even nowadays, well, not exactly Vi
but VIM (VI iMproved) which is the one I use with syntax highligting etc.
etc. etc. I do have a fat Nedit (sorry I don't have Motif and don't play
to buy it either), it's fine but not as powerful. Also got CrispEdit Lite,
also fine but same objection so I do all of my editing with Vi.
Yet I don't believe adding 'vi' or 'emacs' support to any widget is a
good idea with the current state of technology, even as a VI freak. I
didn't enjoy implementing a cordless telephone in assembler (which I
did :-) but then, there were no high-level languages for that processor.
I believe the same analogy applies, why use assember if it can be done
in C (most of the times...).
> But now we're in the late 1990's! We've got decent keyboards. We've got
> mice. We've got X.
>
And 94MB of RAM :)
> Time to forget Vi and Emacs and move to Nedit, gedit and other modern editors!
Well ViM still holds a special place in my brain.
> means that you can't just lean over a colleage's shoulder and type a couple
> of commands on his/her terminal (this happened to me a couple of weeks
Same goes with the TermCap thing, here we have lots of different machines
(Unices) and I can't get a decent works-the-same-on-all-platforms for
my history mechanism. Different shells (Solaris is a constant pain in
the neck), keybindings breaking across rlogins blah, blah, blah.
> got the chance in the early 1980's. I kept to a Vi clone when I spent 6
> years in the DOS wilderness 1988-1994. Then I got linux and X and moved
> over to Nedit.
>
I am also glad to say that I left the Dos/WinCough before getting
infected with Windows Malaria :-) Unix, C & Perl are the greatest.
GUI kits there are several nice ones but I am quite satisfied with
GTK so far.
Cheers,
Hooked On Vim
--
D. Emilio Grimaldo Tunon Compuware Europe B.V. (Uniface Lab)
Software Engineer Amsterdam, The Netherlands
emilio_tunon@nl.compuware.com Tel. +31 (0)20 3116 200 ext. 413
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