On: From Vim to Emacs

[barclay]

Old (old) school vi user here.

When I was working at a .net shop, VS became my vim (mostly because it was already always running), also because it was incredibly familiar.

Since leaving the .net world though, I've relapsed. Have had trouble with eclipse|intelli-j|etc due to their general java slugishness on the mac.

[chongli → barclay]

Nice, I looooove old school vi. O'Reilly's book on vi: Mastering the vi editor: 6th edition is my bible. I wish there were other sources of information and tips for vi. I really want to know what sort of workflows other people have.

[cschmidt → chongli]

I haven't read it myself, but Practical Vim is quite highly regarded:

http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Vim-Thought-Pragmatic-Progra...

A whole book of tips

[chongli → cschmidt]

That sounds like a good book for a vim user. I wonder how much of it would apply to vi, however.