Lyle Johnson
2/24/2009 2:48:00 PM
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Zayd Connor <devrubygem@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm really going to try Vim out, I tried before and
> got kind of discouraged,because I'm still a ruby beginner, but I really
> hated to give up on vim, the feeling of actually getting the hang of
> something that was once puzzling is one of the greatest feelings. Could
> I benefit as a beginner using VIM?
VI(M) can seem daunting at first, but it's really not hard to learn
the *basics* of editing files and you can pick up some of the more
advanced techniques as you go along.
One of the benefits of learning VIM as a tool for editing your Ruby
source code is that you'll find a number of other uses for VIM, since
it's a general purpose text editor. VIM, or VI (the original editor on
which VIM is based) are available on most every Unix/Linux machine
that you'll ever run into, so it's a good tool to have at your
disposal.