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| Originally Published: Wednesday, 20 October 1999 | Author: James Andrews |
| Published to: news_learn_support/Support News | Page: 1/1 - [Std View] |
Two new HOWTOs: VIM and CVS/RCSThere are now How-to Documents on two of the programmers most valuable tools: the VIM text editor and the CVS-RCS revision control system |
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VIM is a powerful text editor with support for regular expressions and syntax highlighting. It is based on the old vi program but is much more usable.
RCS / CVS is in fact two systems. RCS is "Revision Control System" and it is used to keep track of revisions or versions of programs. It is one of those tools that is much more useful than it sounds! CVS is based on RCS but it is network enabled