On 8/1/11 12:23 PM, Mark Szymanski wrote:
MacVim is an app, which is what this mailing list is based off of,
right? Last time I checked, MacVim != vim on Mac. With that logic,
people might as well ask questions here about vim on Linux because
there is very little difference between vim on Mac and on Linux.
per http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
vim-...@vim.org
Purpose This list is for discussing the use and development
of Vim on the Mac OS.
Comments This is for Mac-specific questions about using,
compiling and coding. Generic use questions should
stick to v...@vim.org, above.
~
per http://groups.google.com/group/vim_mac/about
Description Mac users and developers list for Vim, the text editor
~
I see no mention in either place about this list being specifically
about MacVim, though MacVim is certainly covered by all of these
descriptions.
It's certainly reasonable to suggest a place that might be more
productive for asking a question. It seems less reasonable (to me) to be
unfriendly to people who ask a question that you feel doesn't belong on
this list. I mean, as long as the questions aren't about emacs. ;-)
- George
On Aug 1, 2011, at 11:17 AM, dv1...@wayne.edu wrote:
In the last couple of days I've seen false information about the
purpose of this list floating around, particularly the claim that
questions not about MacVim don't belong here.
This is not just a list for MacVim. This is a list for using vim
on a Mac, that is, for questions about vim having specifically to
do with the Mac. This includes, but is not limited to, questions
about MacVim.
In particular, using console vim on a mac is fair game as a
topic---provided the question has something to do with Mac and not
vim in general.
For instance, while "how do I turn syntax coloring on?" and "how do
I execute Python code from within vim?" are not Mac specific and
are better directed towards vim_use, it would be perfectly
appropriate to ask things like "why am I not getting colors in
Terminal.app?", or "how can I use the command-key in a mapping in
console vim?", or "is there a way to still build Carbon vim?", or
"why am I getting a build failure on my Mac but not on my linux box
for vim 7.3.xxx?"
At least, that's how this list used to run, and I can recall
explicit posts to that effect from long ago. I don't think it has
changed.
-gmn
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