[haiku-development] Re: Vim episodes. IV. It is ready to breathe...

On 2009-05-10 at 09:34:49 [+0200], PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/5/10 Donn Cave <donn@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Quoth Matt <laceysnr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> >
> >>> Isn't that a pretty strong argument for just using nano as the only CLI
> >>> editor and let "power" users install vim, if they prefer? It costs only 
> >>> a
> >>> few clicks and everyone is happy.
> >>
> >> I guess you're right, and Jonas' point was well made too. I'd rather
> >> it was installed already (even if you have to set the env var
> >> manually) just so you've got it even if you don't have network access.
> >
> > Right.  I think it's quite optimistic to imagine "everyone is happy"
> > as an outcome of omitting vim from the base install.
> 
> Someone already mentioned Cream, I think this should really be
> considered. It makes vim behaves like any other editor, but still,
> "powerusers" can disable it and use a regular vim. This way we get
> only one editor but everyone can use it happily :)

Unless I'm mistaken the shortcut key would be the wrong one. I.e. Control-S 
for saving instead of Command-S. At least I wouldn't be happy with this.

CU, Ingo

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