Tim-O
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Posted: Jan. 31 2008,17:26 |
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| Quote (lucky13 @ Jan. 31 2008,08:29) | | Kate versus vi flamewar? Never saw this coming. What's "clumsy" about vi? |
vi under DSL3.4 works wonderful. For some reason under MEPIS it refuses to allow me to walk all over the screen changing text while in INSERT mode. It would drop out of INSERT mode for no logical reason I could determine if I moved too far back in the file of the point where I invoked INSERT mode. It may have something to do with vi being unable to fetch the TerminalCapabilities (termcap) for my X-Window session. I moved vi from DSL3.4 over to MEPIS and it won't start because of a missing termcap library. Believe me, I'm an old vi user and use it all the time under the Cygwin environment under Windows. I'm quite good at it. But because it didn't work smoothly under MEPIS (probably could be fixed, I know) I looked at the Kate product and found it pretty darn good with its "language-aware" shading of your source code.
Harking back to the 1980s I even tried running Borland's Turbo-C under WINE just to get the editor it had. I loved that editor. Alas, it wouldn't run easily so I gave up and decided it was really time to move into the 21st century!
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