Comments on: Still looking for … http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/still-looking-for/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Proper word-wrapping in vim « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/still-looking-for/#comment-39991 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:28:00 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2484#comment-39991 [...] problem is something I’ve talked about before, so I’ll spare you the long and boring reason for needing that behavior. Under Crux, the [...]

]]> By: Loui http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/still-looking-for/#comment-38494 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:47:58 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2484#comment-38494 You should write a blog post of why vi/vim brings you to tears, because it’s a very capable editor once you really understand how it works.

vi
http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/

nvi
http://www.bostic.com/vi/

And if you -really- don’t like vi editors then you could always look for a lightweight emacs variant.

]]> By: Andrew http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/still-looking-for/#comment-38487 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:19:07 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2484#comment-38487 Vim is definitely good, took me three or four hours to learn some decent commands, works better then any other text editor I’ve tried, including emacs (because the commands are actually easy to remember)

]]> By: Mikko http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/still-looking-for/#comment-38486 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:30:57 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2484#comment-38486 +1 for Emacs with longlines, to use it: Esc x longlines-mode

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/still-looking-for/#comment-38483 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:02:52 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2484#comment-38483 Dr Small and tigrmesh: Thanks, I’ll look into both of those. I’m not too proud to try something new, just too stubborn to admit it might be better than what I use now. :evil:

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/still-looking-for/#comment-38481 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:53:39 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2484#comment-38481 Cosay Nold: That is definitely one solution I hadn’t considered … :D

]]> By: Cosay Nold http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/still-looking-for/#comment-38480 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:38:50 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2484#comment-38480 I just want a simple text editor with good text wrapping. When using Windows at work, I do all my writing in a free text editor called Notepad2.

Maybe I should just install Wine. Wine can run Portable Firefox, which would relieve me of the need to install GTK, and allow me to run Notepad2.

]]> By: Dr Small http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/still-looking-for/#comment-38475 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:55:19 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2484#comment-38475 Forget Vi, use Vim. It will wrap lines without line breaks. I just tried it ;)

]]> By: tigrmesh http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/still-looking-for/#comment-38474 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:21:40 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2484#comment-38474 You’re going to hate this…

Emacs with longlines mode will wrap words without adding a hard line break.

…just a thought…

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