Does anybody around here feel sick and tired of Windows' defacto editor -- Worpad/Notepad? Or is it just me feeling that way? Well, I know Notepad isn't the king of all editors, but it does get some pretty simple work done. That is all to it. But I wanted more, I wanted specific syntax highlighting for certain languages without sacrificing the lightweight feel of Notepad. I know there are tons of IDEs out there that'd make me happy, but they're usually huge and heavy and are probably memory animals. Features like undo and redo is also what i'm looking for, and hopefully the editor could integrate some external compilers for easy development. I didn't actually start out on the Net to look for an editor, but while I was just perusing some of my favourite sites I bumped upon the enigmatic Vi (pronounced vee-eye) editor. For those who have crossed over to or has always been in the GNU/Linux world, this is a no surprise application. In fact, I myself have been using it for some time when I first crossed over to Linux. I love that editor the most, with so much features in it I could hardly use them all. The learning curve is almost equivalent to f(x) = n, where n is any real number, meaning that it's super easy to use. It didn't occur to me before that there was a port for Win32, but soon after I headed to vim.org to find out more about the port and download it. In less than five minutes I finished installing Vim on my system and was feeling like I was back home again. In truth, I was feeling a little stupid for not knowing that there was a port for Windows all the while. I could've found out much earlier. But I'm glad that I did now. The Win32 port still retains the most part of the original GNU version of Vim and it works fast and has all the stuffs that I want. I couldn't be happier.

If you've never used Vim before, I highly recommend it, a nd before you know it, you'll be using more Vi than the stupid, zero-feature sillyware Windows notepad.

> ddaemon
> "PERL - Puke-Easy Rated Language"
> .