2718.us blog » gvim http://2718.us/blog Miscellaneous Technological Geekery Tue, 18 May 2010 02:42:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Two Days with Xcode Made Me Miss MacVim http://2718.us/blog/2009/04/28/two-days-with-xcode-made-me-miss-macvim/ http://2718.us/blog/2009/04/28/two-days-with-xcode-made-me-miss-macvim/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:14:10 +0000 2718.us http://2718.us/blog/?p=144 I spent a large chunk of 2 days bashing out some code for asLJ, which is in a mix of Applescript Studio and Objective-C all pieced together with its GUI in Xcode.  While I don’t dislike Xcode’s text editor—in fact, I have had moments where I really liked it and wondered about using it for everything—I discovered that the past few months with MacVim/gVim/Vim have gotten me much more into the power of Vim.  Moving around through the code felt slow.  Systematic changes were annoying (simple find-replace isn’t so bad, if not as quick to do as in Vim, but changing “[thing1],[thing2],” to “[thing2],[thing1],” for various values of thing1 and thing2 on numerous lines was a bunch of mouse-keyboard-mixed hackery instead of a single well-constructed command.

There aren’t a whole lot of little details like that for me to point to and say “see?  Vim is better!”  Ultimately, what it comes down to is that I am eager to have to do something like PHP programming or web site maintenance for which I’ll use Vim.

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