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。
如果你是一个编辑大量文本的程序员,那么学习一个严肃的文本编辑器是很重要的。你学习哪种严肃文本编辑器并不是特别重要,它在很大程度上取决于你期望在其中编辑的环境类型。
原因是这些编辑器经过高度优化,可以执行您将经常执行的各种任务。例如,考虑在每行末尾添加相同的文本位。这在一个严肃的文本编辑器中是微不足道的,但在其他方面却非常麻烦。
通常vim的杀手特性被认为:A)它在你遇到的几乎所有Unix上都可用;B)你的手指很少需要离开主行,这意味着你可以非常非常快地编辑文本。即使在编辑巨大的文件时,它也通常非常快速和轻量级。
然而,还有很多替代方案。Emacs是最常见的例子,当然,如果你深入研究它,它不仅仅是一个高级文本编辑器。在使用vim/gvim多年后,我个人现在是一个非常满意的TextMate用户。
切换到其中任何一种的诀窍是强迫自己按照它们的意图使用它们。例如,在vim中,如果您手动执行一个多步骤过程中的每一步,或者如果您使用方向键或鼠标,那么可能有更好的方法来完成它。停下手头的工作去查一下。
如果不做其他事情,可以学习vim和Emacs的基本导航控件,因为它们会到处弹出。例如,你可以在Mac OS、大多数Unix shell、Eclipse等任何文本输入字段中使用emacs风格的控件。你可以在less(1)命令、Slashdot、gmail等中使用vim风格的控件。
玩得开心!
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。