[openbeos] Re: patch for vim on haiku

Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Anyone care to look into our vim issues?
> May I propose to drop vim altogether? Don't get me wrong, I love vim
> as an editor and I use it almost daily, however, it's a rather bulky
> application for normal users. People that really want to use vim (=
> powerusers) will know where to find it. Furthermore, it creates sort
> of a mess in the /etc dir (which, I think, still is a very bad idea 
> in
> BeOSland).

AFAICT it only has a /etc/vim directory there, nothing more (well 
anything is inside that directory, so I wouldn't call it a mess).

> There are probably a whole slew of lighter vi-compatible 
> implementations. 

I disagree here. Of course, we could simply drop all the files in /etc/
vim from the standard distribution, that makes vim still a usable 
editor. 
But I don't really see the point in having it cut down that way; you 
save about 700kB. With the explanation above, you could also remove 
most other shell commands; I don't think that's a good idea at all.
Also, I think that former Linux/BSD/Unix users should feel a bit at 
home in BeOS as well. Currently they do with the selection of GNU 
commands that comes with BeOS, and vim is definitely a part of it.

Bye,
   Axel.

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