Thanks for your reply! Summarized you mean that I do not need to install a plugin to program efficiently in any language, and, that I should learn vim script if I want to have some extra features?
In my experience, there are a lot of things that I need in several plugins. For example, let's say latex-suite. It makes writing latex scripts so much more comfortable that I propably would use a different editor if I couldn't have these advantages. But I definitely don't want to program them myself. On the other hand, I agree with "plugin authors come in all shapes and varieties and you open yourself to inconsistencies and glitches by installing them". That is an extra reason why I want to have common and standardized plugins only. What did you mean by: "there isn't a plugin made that you need -- vim supports all known languages just fine out of the box, or at least all the ones i've heard of "? Does that mean that vim initially supports syntaxhighlighting, compiling, autocompletion, folding, etc for every common language (java, haskell, c, latex)? Chiel On Sep 22, 1:47 am, sc <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, September 21, 2011 09:11:58 Chiel ten Brinke wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I have a question/proposal. I am a real vim fan, but I always > > run into problems when I try to install plugins for > > (programming-)languages. Firstly, it always takes a lot of > > time and pain to find good ones. After that it takes even > > more pains to install them and get them working the right > > way. Does there exist an easy way to install the most common > > programming plugins very easily? Such that vim supports all > > major programming languages? That would be a great gift!! And > > not only for me I guess? > > And in case this does not exist yet, would it be much trouble > > to create a package or script that deals with this? > > I really hope there is a solution to this! That would greatly > > improve my vim experience! > > my opinion is don't -- just don't -- there isn't a plugin made > that you need -- vim supports all known languages just fine > out of the box, or at least all the ones i've heard of > > you don't need any special scripting languages compiled into > your vim either -- vim has a perfectly good scripting > language, and if you need or want to do something to your > buffer in another language, write it as a filter and compose a > vim script to call it > > plugin authors come in all shapes and varieties and you open > yourself to inconsistencies and glitches by installing them > > just my opinion, as i said > > sc -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
