No, no, no! He's a screaming GNU/Linux zealot!

:p

Look, vi is the only editor anyone ever needs, and it's better for people with repetitive motion injuries as well.

A disclaimer for the previous statement: I mean no/very little disrespect to RMS, I think he's a nifty, if very strange, guy who has written and inspired some very nifty software. The words 'zealot' and 'Linux' in close conjunction just bring up certain associations for me.

A disclaimer for the disclaimer: I suck at vB, apparently, and had to edit my post to adjust it.

You whipper-snappers and your newfangled 'vi'! Ain't nuthin' you can't do with ed!

:o <Anything 'vi' can do, 'vim' can do better. 'Vim' can do anything better than 'vi'.>

Even for Dvorak weirdos like me? Yeah, sure. There goes your efficiency. :)

See, I pronounce vim "vim". But I pronounce vi "vee eye", which is how it should be. So, your little song doesn't work! Aha!

(vim is my favorite editor ever.)

Vee eye is the correct pronunciation, expect that there is one better... "six".

This from the old lisa who argued with me that it should be "vye" until "Star Trek VI" came out.

I pronouce it 'vee-eye', too. The song's just as awkward in my head as in yours. :)

(Note the assumtion that neither of us sings it out loud.)

I've been using Dvorak for about a year and a half now, and after that first week using vim has been as easy as ever. Of course, for that first week I had trouble typing my own name.

This may belong in a different thread, probably even in a different forum, but I've found that the Dvorak layout helps tremendously when I'm writing prose, but not much at all when I'm programming. What has your experience been?

Well, I've been using it for about 9 months, and I haven't written much code in that time. I did some Visual Basic, but I'm not sure that really counts. I'm learning Perl this semester, though (as you already know), so we'll see how I do with that.

I do see what you're saying, though. There's a lot more odd characters used in programming, and dvorak is probably designed more to help with writing letters.

It's really a pleasure to write with, though. I don't have to twist my fingers into a pretzel in order to type common words anymore. Mostly, it's just nice to not have my wrists hurt every night.

I vote for "six" myself, along with "nine hundred ninety four" instead of "vim". :rolleyes:

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