[haiku-development] Re: Alpha 1 praises / vim gripes.

  • From: Nicholas Otley <nicholasotley@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:16:47 +0100

I would think 'nano' was the "lowest common denominator editor" rather  
than vim.

Nik

On 14 Sep 2009, at 01:12, Caitlin Shaw wrote:

>
>> Sorry about vim, we were going to rip it out but didn't get to it.
>> You can use Pe to see things in color or get the newer version of vim
>> as you say.
>> -scottmc
>>
>>
> Oh no! Please don't rip it out; it's great for development, when  
> you're
> at the command line and just want to make a quick change to a file
> without navigating all the way through to the same folder via the
> Tracker. I think should be at least some form of console-based editor.
> Plus, you know, all the other usual UNIX commands work, it kind of  
> makes
> sense that either vi or vim would be there. I love how I get most of  
> the
> power of the Linux CLI along with this beautiful, coherent, desktop.
>
>


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