Matěj Cepl wrote: > On 2016-10-27, 11:58 GMT, Tony Mechelynck wrote: >> Ohhh, so that's what you mean. Well, here is another try: Not >> being imitated, or not being a copycat himself, don't >> necessarily mean that Dr. Chip is wrong, especially with Vim, >> which prides himself about allowing the users to obtain the >> same results by different means. > I don't even know whether Dr. Chip was wrong when he invented > vimballs. His crystal ball was obviously a bit murky so he > haven’t expected git (and particularly GitHub) typhoon. Either > because of that or for whatever other reason vimballs really are > not that widespread as was expected when they became part of > vim. I believe it is time to accept the reality and move on. > Well, I don't intend to spend hours re-inventing my scripts which do a lot of housekeeping and are responsible for updating my website, and which work with vimballs. Nor am I about to start keeping your and other's git repositories up-to-date. That said, I don't mind your git repositories, its just that I won't be using them.
Bram asked me to come up with a vim-based way years ago to handle vim plugins; that is the provenance of vimball. Prior to that I myself used tar and gzip. Regards, Chip Campbell -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
