Editing
Hold the presses, stop working, down your tools and look at this.Woops, they've been slashdotted so access may be a little slow.
Essentially, the KVim project is going to embed Vim in the KDE desktop. Life is complete. Now all I need to do is finish upgrading this machine to Woody and I'll be spending most of my time in Linux land.
Since learning vi on Convergent Technologies boxes in the early nineties it is the only editor I have found that I can use on any platform and incredibly productively, and I know I only use about twenty percent of the features available.
Having that kind of editing power embedded in the web browser, mail client and file explorer of my desktop is just the kind of feature that will tip me over into the Linux world. I've been existing in a shadow land, booting between Debian and Windows2000 but this may be the straw which breaks this particular camel's reliance on the lovely people from Redmond.
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