Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 26, 2007 12:37 AM
Free products better keep source open or once the guy in charge feel like quitting because he got bored, the product is gone forever.
Developers are motivated by different things. Some freeware developers might hope to build an audience & eventually create something they think they could get a lot of money for.
Otoh, commercial app at least has a motivation to keep it going as long as it's a good product with good amount of followers.
There have been plenty of commercial apps which have been abandoned for one reason or another.
So, you can say that vim isn't for people who just want to get the editor to work and get the thing done with minimal gui configuration
Why not? evim is used in place of other editors at my work by newbs. It highlights most syntax you can encounter, which is quite useful. You can install new syntax highlighting in most programmers editors, but vim already has even esoteric highlighting by default. And you can know that you'll never "outgrow" your editor.
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Re:Why Vim?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 26, 2007 12:37 AM#