On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:43:09 -0500 Chris Gianelloni > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | If that were truly the case, then we should just rm -rf the Handbook. > | After all, any "real geek" will know how to install a Gentoo system > | without needing it, right? > > Mmm. Say, hypothetically speaking, someone were to come up with a short > vim script which made vim behave very much like nano (no modes, ctrl+ > keys for search, save, quit etc, a help statusline thing and so on), > and a tiny bash script to run it, would this be of interest? Not for > 2005.0, obviously, but as a future possibility?
I think it'd probably need to be out a full quarter before being used in that fashion, if not longer, so it wouldn't be fore 2005.1 either. At least, if you want to do things in a business mature fashion, and avoid potential user calls because you missed something. That being said, I think it'd probably be useful, but you won't be hearing anyone from outside the vim world saying so. I'd code the thing into the global /etc/vimrc file, and have it conditionally load if the user did not have either a ~/.vimrc or a ~/.exrc file. (The latter because, while it may indicate that they're not used to vim, it does indicate they're familiar with its predecessor.) Since it's invoked in /etc/vim/vimrc, I'm not sure for what a bash script would be useful. Incidentally, it appears to me that it'd just be something along the lines of mapping the pertinent control codes in insert mode to the associated command modes, and turning on a few options such as insertmode, laststatus=2, backspace=2, and that sort of thing. Sort of like what's listed under :help easy, but with enough differences, I think it's worth doing as a loadable file, thus alleviating the need to invoke as evim. Ed. -- [email protected] mailing list
