[haiku-development] Re: Vim episodes. IV. It is ready to breathe...
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 14:08:03 +0200
On 2009-05-08 at 11:09:13 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> "Stephan Assmus" <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > If you don't know vim, why do you start it in the first place? Just
> > > because you heard it's an editor??
> > > Why would you want to use commands you don't know to use? The shell
> > > commands can be pretty destructive, and so you better always know
> > > what
> > > you're doing.
> > It has been said before that you end up in vi not on purpose. I don't
> > know why
> > we even discuss this still.
>
> Because one could go on forever with this. I'm not arguing that vim is
> a stupid thing, I just don't see the mentality switch that Fredrik
> wants to see; it's just the question of where to draw the line.
> FWIW, I actually wasn't aware that there are apps that let you end up
> in vim without you knowing it - adding "nano" additionally would not
> solve this, though, so removing vim would be the better option for
> those apps (and eventually making sure EDITOR is set by default).
I suppose that's what people ask for. And although I primarily use vim as a
CLI editor I tend to agree.
CU, Ingo
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