Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> On 4/24/07, Ilya Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Robert Lee wrote:
>> > [snip]
>>
>> > Counterwish #2: Dump VimScript and replace it with EMCAScript (maybe
>> > using SpiderMonkey) so that people don't need to learn a new language
>> If I understand you correctly, you assume that
>> ECMAScript is the most popular language among
>> the people that wish to customize VIM. How
>> do you know the assumption is right?
>
> Aw, come on. Everyone knows ECMAScript.
That's an assumption again. Something that's perceived as general truth.
Any facts to support it?
I guess there are lot of happy C (just an example) programmers
using VIM that don't know JavaScript and friends.
> It's like with HTML:
> everyone knows HTML. It's like on the web and stuff.
>
> I mean, seriously, it's a lot more intuitive to write
>
> Vim.options['formatoptions'] =
> Vim.options['formatoptions'].replace('t', "")
>
> than
>
> :set fo-=t
It's true for me but I assume there are people who would argue.
Huge clarity/brevity tradeoff though...
>
> It's all about domain specific languages. It's said so on the internet.
>
> nikolai
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