Vim Editor in English
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This document describes Luiz Sanches' experience using various text editors over time, leading to his current preference for Vim. It begins with his motivations for seeking a better editor while in college. The bulk of the document then reviews different editors he tried, from early MS-DOS options to more modern Linux-based choices like Emacs, Vi, and Vim. It concludes by discussing Vim's features and configurability that make it a powerful tool for programmers.
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- 2. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 Motive. Information Systems course; Computers with Linux; To code programs in C++ and Java; IDEs are “heavy” to this kind of work; Knowledge of Vim editor; I’m addicted to command-lines; I was tired of the same routine: writing / saving / compiling / testing / re- compiling; Programming Tutoring I’m willing to learn!
- 3. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 But before that, my saga with text editors.
- 4. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 The notorious COPY CON.
- 5. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 EDIT helps a lot.
- 7. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 Windows Notepad. Just the basic.
- 8. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 Notepad has changed a lot...
- 12. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 Just the best part of mcedit.
- 13. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 Emacs is VI's mortal enemy.
- 15. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 VIM. Much better now!
- 16. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 GVIM. For those who enjoy buttons.
- 17. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 Sit and wait because here comes the history.
- 18. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 At the beginning – Quick EDitor. In 1966, Butler Lampson and Peter Deutsch created the QED editor to Berkeley operating system (BSD).
- 19. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 Ken Thompson comes on stage. Ken Thompson used QED in Berkeley. In 1968, he rewrote QED in assembly to MIT’S CTSS, applying the concepts of Regular Expressions ([0-9] *.* ???).
- 20. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 ed – UNIX Text Editor. In 1972, when Ken Thompson wrote UNIX on PDP-7, he also created an editor in C language called ed (based on QED).
- 21. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 VI editor (Visual Interface). In 1976, Bill Joy, cofounder of SUN, created VI editor to BSD. The VI editor is based on an older line editor called ex, along with ed (both variants of QED).
- 22. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 Emacs – the major competitor. At the same period, Richard Stallman, from the GNU project, created Emacs editor. It seems there is a “holy war” between the users of Emacs and Vi.
- 23. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 VIM – Vi IMproved. In 1992, Bram Moolenaar created VIM, Vi IMitator, or, as it’s called now, Vi IMproved. Vi IMproved is the default version to Linux systems.
- 24. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 Some features of Vim: It supports regular expressions in search; Command mapping; Abbreviations; Syntax highlighting (more than 400 languages); It opens many files at a time; Source code automatic indenting; Highly configurable text editor; Portability.
- 26. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 A test held among programmers.
- 27. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 C++ code created by a Junior programmer in some editor.
- 28. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 C++ code created by another Junior programmer in VIM.
- 29. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 1st Junior Programmer. Junior Yamoto
- 30. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 2nd Junior Programmer. Junior Almeida
- 31. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 Thanks! Bram Moolenaar Aurélio Marinho Jargas Silvana Rossy Fábio Cavalcante Estela Corbellini
- 32. Luiz Sanches about.me/luizsanches FISL 9.0 19/04/2008 Tips e links. vim<enter> :help<enter> www.vim.org www.moolenaar.net aurelio.net/vim tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vi-br