Notepad++?

[zac352]

yeah, the command prompt just isn't as useful as the UNIX terminal is. So vim isn't as handy in Windows.

How much do you use the command line for in Vim? The only thing I really invoked externally are various programming languages. That and grep, but Vim has grep built-in now (vgrep). Maybe wc and sort. .

The main thing I like about vim is that your hands never leave their spot on the keyboard. Then I can navigate between terminals and still have my hands in their spot. This is because you can do almost everything in UNIX from the terminal.
In windows, I don't get this luxury, I pretty much am forced to use my mouse in most cases when i switch out of my editor. When I try to do keyboard only in Windows, I end up putting :w all over my document.

I spent several minutes staring at the batch help-thingy for the copy command, trying to figure out how to pack my love into an exe.

Just use the command prompt. It is one line long.

Code: Select all

copy /b love.exe+<love file> <target exe>

I know. I eventually figured it out. But you also have to paste the dlls in there too, or you'll end up with missing dll errors.

[thelinx]

I know. I eventually figured it out. But you also have to paste the dlls in there too, or you'll end up with missing dll errors.

You're not allowed to do that. If you do, you break the licenses of those libraries.

[zac352]

I know. I eventually figured it out. But you also have to paste the dlls in there too, or you'll end up with missing dll errors.

You're not allowed to do that. If you do, you break the licenses of those libraries.

Fudge. Just fudge.
How are you supposed to package it, then? Keep them all with it?

[thelinx]

Yep. Zip 'em all up.

[zac352]

Yep. Zip 'em all up.

Fine.