On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 04:05:46PM +0000, samwise wrote:
I still think my philosophy of using the same editor *everywhere* is the best approach. You need to choose one that's available on every platform you use of course, that's what led me to vile/xvile. I use it in all the following situations:-
I'm glad that works for you - but using a GUI editor you can drag things around, compare docs side by side and use diff features etc. which can be more productive than just plain ol' vi. One size doesn't always fit all!
Absolutely agree. However the gui version of vile (that's xvile) can drag things around and things like that. One of its most useful features is being able to cut and past rectangular regions.