Re: eclipse and vim
Shawn wrote:
Manish Pandit wrote:
Hi There,
I do not want to start some sort of a war here, but personally, ^c and
^v is just as easy as yy and p :-)
You are kidding?
For ctrl-c, you need to use the mouse to drag to highlight the whole
line, then you can use ctrl-c to copy the line.
No, that is not true. Pos1, Shift-ArrowDown, Ctrl-C - as you can see
this can be done completely with the keyboard.
In vim, your fingers
don't need to move far away, just type pp (if you want to copy current
line plus the 3 lines below, type p4p -- quick and easy), then move the
cursor to where you want, press p -- that's it!
Move the cursor to the target line with arrows then Pos1, Ctrl-V - also
doable with keyboard only.
Granted, it's not exactly the same.
If you want to delete the current line and the 5 lines below, type d6d
-- that's it! If you want to paste it somewhere else, move the cursor to
that place, press p -- done!
Pos1, Shift-ArrowDown * 5, Ctrl-X, move to target, Ctrl-V
(I mean all in command mode of course.)
Vi/Vim is the most popular text editor in the world.
Do you have empirical proof to back that statement?
> I have to use
Eclipse because Eclipse is very good for Java programming.
Then you might as well get used to it. If you let yourself get into it
I am sure you will see that you can be highly productive with this tool.
There are a *lot* keybord shortcuts which allow fast movement in
source code and also very complex commands (refactorings, navigation
along the call hierarchy...). It never occurred to me that it's a
disadvantage that I have to use the mouse once in a while. Learning
something new from time to time can be a very rewarding experience.
Anyway, I have installed a trial version to ViPlugin already. It is free
but it bothers me with a reminding purchase message once in a while.
Well, not everything is free on this planet. I am constantly amazed
that even Eclipse is free. So you might look at the price for the VI
plugin as the price for the complete package and I am pretty sure it
then will be pretty reasonable compared what you get.
Kind regards
robert