Wow. I've never seen such anger over an editor. Somewhat uncalled for, methinks.
J Original Message: ----------------- From: Robert Lewko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:38:25 -0700 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [clug-talk] vimrc icing on the cake <flamebait> This is what you call fully functional?!!! I use xemacs or eclipse depending on which language I'm writing 'cause they give me this and much more out of the box. First, what kind of modern editor has modal operation? Insert mode/Command mode. You've got to be kidding!!! I have (from left to right) the character encoding, the file name, the major/minor emacs mode (currently Ruby Syntax Font Mode), the current line and the cursor position percentage on my mode line with each buffer. I can open multiple frames (top level windows) each with multiple buffers in them. Does vim have the equivalent of a 'kill ring'? That is a circular buffer of the last n deletes (n is configurable). As an example, what that allows you to do is delete 1, delete 2, delete 3, move somewhere else and retrieve 3, retrieve 1, retrieve 2. That's power!!! Why you guys persist in using this drek I don't know! The other programming environment that I use is eclipse; primarily when I am coding C++ or Java. When I use eclipse to enter in a function or method name a tip pops up with teh method arguments to remind you what types are accepted. Does vim do that? Put it in the subject line when you switch to a real editor! I think that I'll put a filter on my subject line to delete anything with "vim" or "vimrc". </flamebait> On 10/30/06, Michael Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > When I was tidying my computer room I found a paper copy of an email > from Andrew J. Kopchiuch telling me to add the following line to my > vimrc file to always show the filename: > > set laststatus=2 > > I added this line to ~/.vimrc file in Zenwalk and to /etc/vimrc file in > Suse and now in both systems and now my vim editor performance is > perfect including the icing on the cake of always having the file name > showing somewhere on the screen even when in insert ( i ) mode. > > So now my vim editor is fully functional in both Zenwalk and Suse. > > Thanks again Andrew > > Post script: > > The old email message printout I found was dated and timestamped Fri, 12 > May 2006 23:39:03 -0600. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
