Everyone should use vi!

Grab a copy of vim for your favorite OS today! Guaranteed to be more powerful than whatever editor you're using now!



Seriously, I just did what I think is something really fancy with Vim today. I was editing up a C bitmap by hand. I didn't know what values corresponded to what colors (it was an indexed color bitmap with no index ), but I had a copy of the image it was based off of. So I could go through the file and replace each instance of the hex code (in 0xab format) with the real color I wanted (in octal 0777 format). So it was easy to search for outstanding `0x' strings. But one I was there, it was a real pain to do all the math based on the column and line number to find to what pixel it corresponded. So what I did was redefine vim's ruler to do the math for me, so it displayed x by y coordinates in the bitmap instead of column by line coordinates. Saved me probably hours of work.

Anyway, enough evangelizing.