Trust me, you're missing nothing. Remembering about 3 vi commands will get your through that rare instance a Linux distro really only stuck you with vi (a truly rare occurrence these days) and there's few things worth doing in any development I've ever done that aren't easier accomplished in the ridiculously powerful modern IDEs we have, seriously, I know this is already pissing off someone, but Eclipse beats the everliving shit out of Vim, and for cases where Eclipse is overpowered there's an easier to use tool than Vim that will suit your needs fine. It's a waste of your time, trust me.

Thank you for your answer. Hmm... if it was only lack of some shortcuts and I am looking for "one and simple" tool it seems that N++ would be better choice for me as I can upgrade it with some plugin if needed.

One more question: are default keyboard shortcuts hard to change in N++?

I did watch video in your link and so far it wasn't so difficult to understand. But your definition as "programmer's editor" .. hmm... For more advanced works I have advanced applications to edit in, I just need "a quick patch" if I need to open any simple file with just text characters in it so VIM could be just too advanced for that.

This is what I am thinking at the moment about VIM - "too advanced for my needs". Also lack of mouse support seems a little... weird to me. :) But I can understand "why".

This an image for changing keyboard shortcuts.

Ah, so it is "not so hard" - thanks :)

One more thing I would like to ask about N++ - does it have vertical block copy/paste? It was one of the nicest features of Dos Navigator's build-in editor when I was using it back in the past and I am really missing it sometimes now.

Also, no one has still answered me about CSV support and I can not find any info about such build-in option or external plugin :(

I have attached an image of vertical selection. Do you mean that?


I don't know what you expect for CSV support. Can you clarify?

Looks similar. Can you cut and paste it vertically in any place?

like we have at start:

123456
123456
123456

I'm looking for possibility to mark all 3s *at once* to cut and paste them in next step between 5s and 6s to get

124536
124536
124536


Common CSV's text file display can look like that (three rows):

1234,567,53224,57678888,234
1,23,74345,233,2
345778,8534345,44566,44444,754357

If you look at it it's hard to see individual columns - what I am looking for is some text editor with some ability "to sort them out", to see something similar like this:

1234....,567..........,53224,57678888,234
1...........,23............,74345,233............,2
345778,8534345,44566,44444.......,754357

No clue. I've never checked. I imagine they aren't too hard to change. But that's really a minor issue. The biggest one that makes me change from N++ to CE is CE's better macro support.

The external tools support was beneficial when I was doing some Borland C++ 3 programming years ago and I could set up a set of tools for compiling and testing the game, but then when I went to another project in another language, I could load up another set of external tools for it. Switching back and forth was just a few keystrokes.

You can do this in notepad++

I don't know about this "organazing" columnes, i cannot find a default option for this

If you don't mind some overkill, OpenOffice/LibreOffice's spreadsheet works well with CSV from my little experience...