On 12/6/05, Ben <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Michael Crute said the following on 12/06/2005 09:53 AM: > > On 12/6/05, Richard Davey <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Indeed, if you are bad at VI things go very slow but if you are good > > at VI (I am semi-good) you can code FAR faster than any GUI I have > > ever used. > > If you take the upfront time to learn how to use VIM you'll discover it > is very powerful and very quick. It's even better if you use it in > conjunction with screen. > > > Plus you can use VIM on Windows too. > > Yes, though if you're stuck on Windows I'd suggest using VIM via Putty > (even if you're using Putty to SSH to your local machine) so that you > can resize your shell window horizontally as well as vertically. > > - Ben Well if you properly setup GVIM (turn off the menus and toolbars) you have about the same thing. Thats what I use at work instead of notepad. It works really well. My _gvimrc file looks like so and accomplishes exactly what you are saying with GVIM au GUIEnter * simalt ~x set guioptions= syn on set guifont=Lucida_Console:h9:cANSI set wrap! set nu set tabstop=4 emenu Edit.Color Scheme.torte set nocp set bs=2 set swapfile! -Mike -- ________________________________ Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
