Vi (Vim), If You’re Not Using Vim, You Should Be!

OK, I’ll bite.

vi is crap and should be banished from the face of the earth…

Long Live Komodo!

;o)

I believe any editor that meets your needs is the editor to use. I think this is just a religious issue and I don’t care.

I use UltraEdit and PsPad for Tcl procs and vi for our AIX stuff because it is what we have.

I use vi very little because I use the IDE for engine objects (other than Tcl). I would use UltraEdit more for the things I use vi but since they have made FTP a nightmare to use here and I do so little vi editting anyway it is not worth the pain.

If I just want to look at something I use less (one of the few time I really can do more with less).

And, for the record, I agree with Jim.  Whatever editor is right for you is right for you…

Just trying to have a little fun and help Max get his war started.

I use UltraEdit with Samba for most things.

If I have to do a quick TCL hack it works well.

I also find it useful to “Regression Test” translates and TPS code by running a bunch of reformatted trans from the SMAT files into both new and old code.  I then use the “UltraEdit” “UltraCompare” function on the output files to insure that the differences are explained by the changes, and that the changes are doing with I intended.  Has saved me on a couple occasions.  You have to be quite careful with the line ending treatments using UltraEdit.

If I’m going to do any complicated TCL coding, I use Komodo.  Even writing in a structured manner (creating all closures first then inserting the code) it is easy to misplace a curly.  Komodo highlights the matching brackets.