[Chicago-talk] Best perl editor on Linux?

Steven Lembark lembark at wrkhors.com
Sun Jan 25 17:43:53 CST 2004



-- Andy Lester <andy at petdance.com>

>> I'd pick vile (ftp://invisible-island.net/vile). It
>> uses the simpler command structure of vi with the
>> multiple-buffering, hiliting, etc, of emacs.
>
> So does vim.
>
> I'd go so far to say as that vim is the standard vi these days.

Problem is that they broke so much of the original
vi syntax that it's hard to switch between stock
versions on other systems (e.g., uu).


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