begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:44:06PM -0800: > boblq wrote: > > vi is extensible .. You have the source Luke. > > http://vim.sourceforge.net/download.php > > Riiiight. Your pickup truck is extensible too. You've got a welder, right?
Vim has a pretty powerful macrosystem. You don't need source unless you want to turn vi(m) into something barely resembling an editor. I've set up vim to get a pretty useful Java development system. I can type :mak and it will compile the tree for me (using ant) and them take me to the first line with an error (and I can jump to other lines should I wish); I can hilight an import and jump to the source for that class; etc. etc. And I didn't even finish the customization. I got what I wanted to work working, and then I moved on with getting things to work. I, too, have tried emacs several times. And, despite having been a microemacs user for a couple of years, it just doesn't stick. I already have an environment I like, I don't need another layered on top. If Linux and Apple die and I'm forced to use an M$ system for the rest of my life, Emacs will become far more interesting. -Stewart "Emacs is a sign you don't really like your OS" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
