[haiku-development] Re: Alpha 1 praises / vim gripes.
- From: Hike Danakian <hdana2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:12:44 -0700
Um, vim is not analogous to MS-DOS Editor, in case that needed
pointing out. (By the way, Windows is also no longer based on MS-DOS).
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Caitlin Shaw <rogueeve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Good afternoon all,
>>
>> First let me say the Alpha 1 Haiku image is looking great, running it on my
>> Dell Optiplex SX270 and everything works great (even sound!). Heck, Haiku
>> this close to R1 is giving me the warm fuzzies.
>>
>> I do a have a silly complaint about vim though, I am way too spoiled
>> editing C,C++,etc in color vim.
>> vim 7.2/color support
>> This can be enabled by:
>> updating the vim packages to the 7.2 ones on haiku-files.org or adding the
>> syntax files to /etc/vim/syntax/ in 6.3
>> adding ' export TERM=xterm-color ' to the /etc/profile (this works but may
>> not be 100% proper.)
>> adding ' syntax enable ' to vimrc or leaving it to the user to run a '
>> :syntax enable '
>>
>> anyway, here is to happy and bug free alpha 1!
>>
>>
> While absolutely not trying to diss anyone's personal preference, what's
> with all the concern lately about "vim"? I was under the impression it
> was provided as the "lowest common denominator" editor in case nothing
> else was installed. Windows developers wouldn't code anything serious in
> "MS-DOS Editor", are we really expecting our desktop userbase to make
> extensive use of a tool like "vim"? Personally, I can't even stand to
> code in PE, in fact my very first Haiku project I'm working on right now
> is to write a new IDE since I found the existing offerings simply
> unpleasant to work in.
>
> That said, I see no reason why the "default editor" shouldn't be setup
> as nice as possible, so yeah, when there's a chance, I would support the
> OP's suggestions. And again, if your preference is vim, I have nothing
> against that. And actually, I HAVE coded several large projects in
> MS-DOS Editor. All I'm saying is, this is supposed to be a desktop OS,
> how much focus do we really want to put into small coreutils type tools
> like vim? In my view "vim" is a handy emergency recover tool; it should
> hardly be our offering of official development environment (metaphor; I
> know there is really no such thing).
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