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Re:Why Vim?

Posted by: Administrator on January 26, 2007 09:05 AM
For the time vim has been developed, I don't take vim's console nature being a excuse not to be as visually functioning compared to other gui editors. For tabs, like it is on vim 7, you can have them listed at the top of the screen, which is handy, but until vim 7, there was no such thing, you always had to type something to just check out what you're opening, unless you're a serious vim config hacker and had your vim already at as equally featureful as vim 10.

No, I don't use diff much.

><nobr> <wbr></nobr>:ls would be enough
Enough doesn't mean, there can't be improvements, at least in my opinion, vim can learn from modern gui editors by a good margin than stick with the old style.

Yeah, some plugins are cool like that miniExplorer thing, but that doens't still solve my mystery how people think vim is the best (or 2nd best<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;) ) editor.

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