2009/2/11 Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]>: > > On 11/02/09 03:16, pansz wrote: > [...] >> Compiling vim isn't hard and I can customize it, in most cases I want >> Normal version without GUI support but with +x11, +multibyte, >> ++builtin-termcap, cscope and sse2 instruction. it would be hard to >> provide all kinds of options in a binary package. > > Indeed; see my HowTo pages: > http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compile.htm (Windows) > http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm (Unix/Linux) > >> >> Some may argue that "average users" would not compile by themselves, but >> I doubt if average users will use vim as the editor at all. > > I think on Linux quite a number of them will, even if in practice they > use only elementary funtionalities at first. (What do you think they > would use instead? Emacs?) But they may stay with whatever version their > distribution provides, and be blissfully unconscious of its being always > more or less out-of-date. > > > Best regards, > Tony.
Umm... i'd be one of the average users! Recently joined to learn more about Vim. I can compile if necessary! I'm using the elementary functions at first! I'd wonder if upgrading was necessary before the next release of ubuntu. I have attempted to use emacs... couldn't stand the speed and vast menu of loads of things i'll probably never use. Just in case you're wondering - i'd say gedit is an excellent editor but for future use and development i want to learn Vim. It's a shame there isn't a plugin for vim keybindings on a wordprocessor. 20 years ago i used Wordstar and Wordmaster - same keybindings for word processing and editor - that was a good balance for productivety. james [UK] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
