As a programmer I spend a lot of hours at the keyboard and I've been doing it for the last 12 years, more or less. If there's something I've never gotten used to during all this time, it's these annoying and almost unconscious constant micro-interruptions I experience while coding, due to some of the most common code editing tasks. Things like a simple copy & paste from a different line (or even the same line), or moving 1 or 2 lines up or down from the current position require too much typing or involve the use of the arrow keys ...and it gets worse when I want to move further - I end up using the mouse. Now imagine this same scenario but on a laptop.

我一直在考虑学习VIM,但掌握它所需的时间总是让我想后退一步。

我想听听那些学会了它的人的意见,如果它最终成为你生活中不可或缺的东西之一。

在工作中,我使用VS2008, c#和r#,它们一起使编辑代码比以前更快更容易,但即使如此,我认为我可以享受根本不需要使用鼠标。

甚至连方向键都没有。


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I too put off learning vi or vim for many years. Matter of fact, I use to make fun of the "vi guys" who always seemed to be doing finger aerobics. Then, as I moved away from Windows and over to Linux as my primary OS, I had to become more familiar with vim. It was a learning curve and it still is. After 9 years of using vim on a daily basis I still find myself learning new and faster ways of doing things. What I use to think of as "finger aerobics" actually turned out to be an extremely efficient way of being productive. I can now do a whole lot more code development in a whole lot less time and effort than I ever did prior to vim. And as I'm sure you know vim runs on about every platform out there so you always have it when you need it. Also, if you like GUI's they have GUI versions for most platforms. Personally, just like the mouse, I don't want to see a menu bar, scroll bars, etc. cluttering up my editing window(s).

如果你决定尝试一下vim,我强烈推荐O'Reilly的《vi Editor Pocket Reference》一书。它很便宜,如果你只是学习vi (vim),它是很棒的。完整的vim书籍也很好,但口袋参考给你所有的基础知识,快速高效。

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我使用vi和vim也有20年了,我还在学习新的东西。

David Rayner的Best of Vim Tips网站是一个很好的列表,不过如果您对Vim比较熟悉,它可能会更有用。

我还想提一下ViEmu网站,那里有一些关于vi/vim技巧的很棒的信息,特别是文章Why, oh, Why, do those nuhead with vi?(存档版本)

浏览vimtutor只花了我30分钟,这足以让我熟悉vim。每一秒都是值得的。

我的工作迫使我学习vim,这很快就成为了我的第二天性。现在我抱怨的是没有vim仿真或插件的IDE。我注意到esc键已经成为我在vim之外的敌人。

我确实在Visual Studio中找到了几个vi模拟器:

http://code.google.com/p/vim-visual-studio/

是的,一定要花时间学习至少一点'vi'和'vim'。它旅行很好。

当你面对一个你没有安装能力的Unix/Linux/Mac系统时,你永远不会被困住。即使在Windows上(如果你有安装功能)“Vim”是免费且易于安装的。(而不是把你的学习曲线完全投入到像UltraEdit这样的东西上,尽管一个优秀的编辑器可能并不总是适合你……)

学习vi可以帮助你学习其他工具,比如sed和regex:一般来说是可迁移的东西。

另外,如果你想成为一个真正的极客,你只需要知道'vi/m',否则你看起来就像一个骗子;-)

我在远程计算机上维护一个非常大的linux项目。不能选择使用Eclipse或类似的基于GTK的IDE。我在那里工作三年了。 我为这个项目设置了vim。还在调整。

现在我可以在Vim中做任何事情:源代码控制、sql、调试、编译、浏览——非常快速地浏览超过1Gb的源代码。

Visual Studio或Eclipse无法处理所有这些。如果我有选择,我不会把Vim换成其他编辑器或IDE。