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On 23 August 2014 17:17, Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 23.08.14 16:19, schrieb Joshua Landau:
>>
>> On 23 August 2014 10:41, Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sometimes I impress my colleagues with what they call "magic", i.e.
>>> creating
>>> special repeated lists of numbers by a few keystrokes in gvim, and that
>>> has
>>> triggered the request from them to learn a bit of (g)vim.
>>
>>
>> I have yet to be truly impressed by Vim, in that Sublime Text with a
>> few extensions seems to do the same things just as easily. I find that
>> Vim and Emacs users consistently underrate the powers of these
>> editors, presumably because they've never put nearly as much effort
>> into them as they have into their Vim or Emacs.
>
>
> I never looked into Sublime, because it costs money. But no doubt it is a
> powerful editor, judging from comments of other people.

Ay, so is any editor with an API. I use Sublime mostly because it's
pretty, fast and has a Python-based API. The only actual feature it
has that some others don't is multiple selections, and even then a lot
do.

My point is more about how using Emacs or Vim and having a powerful
editor is mostly the symptom of the same thing, not a causal relation.

>> For example, to make a numbered list in (my) Sublime Text (fully
>> custom shortcuts ahead):
>>
>> [ ... some keystrokes ...]
>
> I'd actually do this in gvim to put numbers at each line:
>
> - Select text (by mouse, or v + cursor movements)
> - ! awk '{print NR ". " $0}'
>
> Yes, it is cheating, it pipes the selected text through an external tool.
> But why should I do the tedious exercise of constructing an editor macro,
> when an external tool like awk can do the same so much easier?

Because it normally happens more like this:

Move to copy something that I wish to postfix with a number
Ctrl-d a few times to select copies of that fragment
Write $ and select it
Press Ctrl-e to turn "$"s into numbers

Luckily that one doesn't happen too often either because numbering
things sequentially is better left to loops. The key binding is
primarily used for evaluating snippets of code inline.

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  Re: Global indent Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-08-22 13:34 -0500
  Re: Global indent "Neil D. Cerutti" <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-08-22 14:44 -0400
  Re: Global indent Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-08-22 12:21 -0700
  Re: Global indent Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-22 15:46 -0400
    Re: Global indent Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@technologyhighland.invalid> - 2014-08-22 12:54 -0700
      Re: Global indent Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-08-22 23:11 +0300
        Re: Global indent Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-23 19:08 +1000
          Re: Global indent Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-08-23 12:32 +0300
          Re: Global indent Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2014-08-23 11:41 +0200
            Re: Global indent Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2014-08-23 15:19 +0100
              Re: Global indent Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2014-08-23 18:17 +0200
                Re: Global indent Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2014-08-23 21:57 +0100
                Re: Global indent Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-23 14:55 -0700
                Re: Global indent Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2014-08-24 20:24 +0100
            Re: Global indent Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-24 00:56 +1000
              Re: Global indent Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2014-08-23 18:09 +0200
              Re: Global indent Anders Wegge Keller <wegge@wegge.dk> - 2014-08-23 22:43 +0200
                Re: Global indent Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-08-24 01:50 +0300
            Re: Global indent Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-08-23 15:18 -0500
          Re: Global indent Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-23 07:49 -0700
          Re: Global indent [levity] Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-08-23 17:17 +0000
      Re: Global indent "Neil D. Cerutti" <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-08-22 16:16 -0400
      Re: Global indent Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-08-22 14:14 -0700
        Re: Global indent Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-23 19:31 +1000
          Re: Global indent Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-08-23 15:09 -0500
      Re: Global indent Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-23 18:19 +1000
        Re: Global indent alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-08-23 10:17 +0000
          Re: Global indent Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2014-08-23 10:32 -0400
    Re: Global indent Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-23 06:20 +1000
    Re: Global indent Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-22 21:59 +0100
    Re: Global indent mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2014-08-23 12:50 +0100
  Re: Global indent Simon Ward <simon@bleah.co.uk> - 2014-08-22 20:22 +0100
  Re: Global indent Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-23 18:12 +1000
  Re: Global indent Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-08-23 11:10 -0400

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