On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 05:56:46PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
my first reaction to russ' note was that vim hasn't so much provided an editor, but an editor development platform for people who don't want to start from scratch.
You're thinking of Emacs. Vim, internally and externally, is a monolithic mess (I'm no Emacs appologist, by the way). It's got scripting languages and knobs and bells and whistles and chimes and thorns cyanide. But it's not a platform. It's an editor that you can try to mangle to behave in ways it normally wouldn't. Emacs, though, is an OS, which has some editor functionality. It's a platform on which to build an editor. It's also large, complex, and beyond my ability to wield.
-- Kris Maglione Any line, however short, is still too long.
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