Dnia sobota, 2 września 2006 04:21, Gabriel B. napisał:
> didn't get if it was just a invitation to the brussels' talk or a
> invite to a vim8 suggestion fest. so i'm bitting :)
>
> wrote that about vim7:
>  http://gabriel.barros.googlepages.com/vim7reviewrant

Few comments:

> - Spell checking support for about 50 languages
> 
> I never dweled in the spellcheking, but i haven't seen any mention of 
aspell
> or other well stabilished architeture used, so i assumed it was written 
from
> scratch. Don't think that was clever. But i'm not going to look the 
horse's
> teeths :) > 

Vim spellchecker is better than "aspell or other well stablished 
architecture".
I was testing it extensively for Polish and helping (I hope ;) in
development in non-coding way.

> - Internal grep; works on all platforms, searches compressed files
> 
> now, this i feel like making the same rant as the spell check. Why? oh 
why?
> think of the children!  > !grep

Internal grep is godsend for people working on different architectures.
No more guessing dialect of grep and supported regexp features.
Also using all the time the same regular expressions is making life
easier for script developers - point as above plus passing string to
external program was always risky. All this quotes mess.

> vim8 should be about interface and feedback.

What about interface? Consistency and thesameness of interface on all
platforms is what I like (and I think many people are sharing my
sentiments). Sure, Vim could use more ncurses features like menus and
dialogs but no serious overhaul can expected.

> It's functional as it is today. But not easy yet. 

I don't suspect "easy" was goal for Vim ever. Effective, yes.

m.

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