ropers wrote: > 2008/5/4 Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> "[vim] alters files in unexpected ways", which I consider a >> major sin. > > I didn't know that, and cursory googling didn't turn up anything > enlightening. Could you elaborate? > > Thanks and regards, > --ropers
It might have been better if I had said, "alters my input", instead of implying that I edit a file with vim and it gets saved differently than loaded without my deliberately changing anything. And yes, tabs and auto indent were some of the things. I also had an experience with it auto-inserting line breaks which caused me large amounts of problem. All this stuff is there for a reason, and is great for the intended purposes. HOWEVER, it's annoying as heck when one's purposes don't jive with the editor's defaults. Yes, all those defaults can be changed, but on the machine I was fighting with at the time, they were in some very inappropriate for my needs, and quite unexpected behavior for something I invoked with the command "vi". I won't dispute vim is a great editor...I just dislike it pretending to be vi on some distributions of another OS. In all likelihood, it COULD pass as vi, but not with all the options turned on. Nick.
