Comments on: To all the editors I’ve loved before…

By: Rump – Ruby Upload Metaweblog Post -- Chip's Tips for Developers

Rump – Ruby Upload Metaweblog Post -- Chip's Tips for Developers — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:14:52 +0000

[...] since moving to vim as my primary editor, I’ve wished that I could also use it as my blogging platform, without having to copy/paste [...]

By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:19:05 +0000

I’m working on one, Jacob. If I ever get it even most of the way done, I’ll post it on chipstips.com.

By: jacob

jacob — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:22:01 +0000

Do you happen to have a Synergy/DE syntax highlighting file for vim that you are willing to share?

By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:33:43 +0000

Interesting, but it’s apparently only on Windows.

By: apotheon

apotheon — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:33:33 +0000

Whatever was on the other end of that link appears to have vanished now.

By: Jussi Jumppanen

Jussi Jumppanen — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:40:40 +0000

I suggest taking a look at Zeus – http://www.zeusedit.com/

It has lots of IDE features but still feels like a snappy text editor.

By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:13:24 +0000

Interesting. Mostly Intellisense seems to get in the way — except when I can’t remember the parameters to a function. If I ever get around to checking it out, I’ll report back. Thanks.

By: apotheon

apotheon — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:11:06 +0000

There’s a Vim Intellisense now, by the way — if you want it. I don’t care for such a thing, so I haven’t given it a try, but I rather suspect it’s not as much a drag on performance as Intellisense in certain other code editors.

By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:59:06 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Richard. It’s nice to hear from another Synergy user here. I haven’t tried Notepad2, but now that back in vim full speed, it would be hard to switch to anything else. I’ve started coding the syntax highlighting for Synergy/DE, but I haven’t gotten very far.

By: RichardB

RichardB — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:09:47 +0000

Editors can be a religion, but they are also a tool. When the tool becomes less useful, even the most devout can change. I work for a company which was originally a VMS house. The editor of choice was standard TPU. No intellisense, no color, no nonsense. As we expanded to include Unix, we needed a new editor. JED became the editor of choice because it supported all our platforms, including VMS, and had editing modes which act like TPU or act like EMACS so people with both backgrounds could use the same editor with ease. Since it is based on an interpreted version of c called s-lang, we were able to teach it very basic Synergy syntax highlighting.
Over time the PC caught on and every developer turned in their VaxStation for a Windows 95 PC. The editor of choice in that era was CodeWright. We developed a PVCS integration tool which managed revision control and semi-automated changelog documentation. We wrote a wrapper around the compiler tools to automate the builds. We also taught it basic syntax highlighting.
Then Synergex began to offer Workbench based on SlickEdit. The intellisense was so much better than the basic stuff and we did not have to keep up with the changes in the language syntax. After porting our macros from CodeWright to SlickEdit, all other editors were forgotten. That is, until the latest version… I absolutely love the powerful intellisense the current version has, but open a 2500 line source the whole thing grinds to a halt for 45 seconds while it tries to figure out what to do. Like Chip, sometimes I just want the text without the bloat.
Now my job requires me to split between Synergy and C#, some XML, and some SQL. For the quick view of files we are hooked on Notepad2, an open source editor with simple syntax highlighting of several languages. It is great for the quick edit or the code review where you don’t need the full syntax engine. Now if someone would only teach it how to color my Synergy code!!

By: A frank look at my third year -- Chip’s Quips

A frank look at my third year -- Chip’s Quips — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:00:29 +0000

[...] To all the editors I’ve loved before - stoking the text editor wars for page views. [...]

By: Joseph A Nagy Jr

Joseph A Nagy Jr — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:19:14 +0000

You are correct, sorry I wasn’t clearer.

By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:04:21 +0000

Yes, I think when Joseph said “cmd mode vim” he meant running under cmd.exe. Right, Joseph?

By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:02:44 +0000

On the console window, pull down the system menu (upper left) and pick “Properties”. On the first tab, “Quick Edit Mode” is a checkbox. With that enabled, right-click will paste.

By: apotheon

apotheon — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:42:10 +0000

Oh, this is an MS Windows thing? I thought he was saying he didn’t know whether it worked in MS Windows, but it works with a console-based Vim on Unix-like systems, or something like that. The whole time, I was thinking “What? Since when?”

By: Joseph A Nagy Jr

Joseph A Nagy Jr — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:14:29 +0000

quick edit mode?

Isn’t everything a ‘quick edit’ with vim? :p

By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:38:17 +0000

Sure, I’ve used :! in vi ever since I was first introduced to it 24 years ago.

By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:25:33 +0000

Brilliant! It does require “Quick Edit Mode” to be set in the console’s properties — but I’m starting to prefer that anyway.

By: Joseph A Nagy Jr

Joseph A Nagy Jr — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:10:19 +0000

No, like just right-clicking and whatever text is in the clipboard gets pasted automagically.

By: apotheon

apotheon — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:50:24 +0000

I don’t see it happening, considering what Vim currently uses as its licensing — to say nothing of the fact that it probably includes contributed code from dozens of coders by now, making a license change kind of impractical.