Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 03, 2006 08:46 PM
What a troll.
Vim *is* useful for quick edits. Otherwise its commands are difficult to use compared to a full-fledged editor (like emacs).
I don't mind---just make sure vim-minimal is still available. The rest is bloat....
So which is it... is EMACS (bigger than Vim) full-fledged while Vim (smaller than EMACS) is bloat? Come on.
So what's the point of adding yet more features to it? Emacs is much more mature (and programmable).
You obviously don't know anything about Vim. Not only has vi been around since the dark ages, Vim has what's called Vimscript... which makes basically anything possible... from e-mail clients to directory listing to custom compiles... hell, Vim will include the Python interpreter if you want it to.
Of course, those are "features", so if that's bloat, then quit complaining.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 03, 2006 08:46 PMWhat a troll.
Vim *is* useful for quick edits. Otherwise its commands are difficult to use compared to a full-fledged editor (like emacs).
I don't mind---just make sure vim-minimal is still available. The rest is bloat....
So which is it... is EMACS (bigger than Vim) full-fledged while Vim (smaller than EMACS) is bloat? Come on.
So what's the point of adding yet more features to it? Emacs is much more mature (and programmable).
You obviously don't know anything about Vim. Not only has vi been around since the dark ages, Vim has what's called Vimscript... which makes basically anything possible... from e-mail clients to directory listing to custom compiles... hell, Vim will include the Python interpreter if you want it to.
Of course, those are "features", so if that's bloat, then quit complaining.
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