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7 Reasons Every Programmer Should Use Vim

xhtml-css.com — Now, here's an article that shows why it still makes sense learning vim in 2008. Seven logic and nice reasons (all trolls and flames away) every coder should learn vim, and -at least- use it if his/her IDE integrates a vim-editing style feature. Subtle and concise, this *is* worth reading :)

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  • cafefort, on 01/16/2008, -0/+6Thanks tsevis, yes I understand your concern :) But this article is really worth it and everyone should give vim a try even if he/she intends to use it inside an IDE
  • MattBD, on 01/16/2008, -0/+5Although I've been using Linux for nearly a year now, I've not yet really had the occasion to use Vim. So far I've stuck with a combination of Kate and nano - I find command-line ones like nano are better for editing configuration files on your system, and I also preferred it when I've tried to learn Java, but I prefer Kate for HTML, CSS or JavaScript.
    I could see myself ending up using Vim instead of nano, but I don't know if it could replace Kate for me - I think Emacs might be better suited for that.
    Still, I agree with the article - I had a go on Adobe Dreamweaver some time ago and it just seemed overcomplicated. I'd rather use a basic text editor, at least until I have a better idea what I'm doing. The one or two times I have used Vim, I did get the impression that its way of working is more logical to a complete novice than many other text editors, and it doesn't take ages to load the way something like NetBeans does.
  • tsevis, on 01/16/2008, -0/+5I don't actually like the articles titled with numbers. Seem that they desperately screaming for a Digg. And most of the time there are. But this one is accurate, has its arguments and is intuitive. I am not a programmer, but it makes me curious about VIM.
    Good work, carefort. Dugg!
  • meshman, on 01/16/2008, -1/+5Cause it cleans ceramic countertops better than most leading cleansers?
  • ethangk, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3Lol "“Only stupid people don’t change their mind”, but still… I’ve choosed my tools"
  • cafefort, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3Yes Matt, It's IMHO a matter of ideas' flow. a good text editor won't get in your way, won't interrupt your ideas flow.
  • euping, on 01/17/2008, -0/+2Thanks for this article, very informative! I will defeat my lazyness and switch to VI one day, promised!
  • tsevis, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Your welcome, mate. I enjoyed the article.
  • gbarberi, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2I stopped using dreamweaver when I got ssh access to my hosted server; I had no other use for it.
    Nano is cool, but I only use it when remoting into my servers.
  • sandibauman, on 01/17/2008, -0/+2My curiosity is piqued!
  • cafefort, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Example: Eclipse and viplugin. There's a lot of others of course
    http://satokar.com/viplugin/?q=node/20

  • dschep, on 01/18/2008, -0/+1Thanks. I was rather looking for non-eclipse and non-ms-visual-studio plugins. =D
  • cafefort, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Give it a try Sandi, vim is useful for any text editing need! :)
  • dschep, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Just out of curiosity what ide's have vim support?
  • bigbadbyte, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1My professor freshman year forced us all into using it. Now, I get upset when I can't just cut 3 lines of text by typing 3dd into microsoft word.
  • jinky32, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1thanks for this. just going about choosing an editor - had plumbed for bluefish but will reconsider Vim!
  • ifnotme, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1emacs or bust! All I do in vi is :q!
  • cafefort, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Because you don't know that ":e" is easier than "C-x C-f"
  • gbkyle, on 01/16/2008, -1/+0Why don't you take off your glasses.

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