On 11/02/09 09:43, James Freer wrote:
> 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 more or less out-of-date.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.
:-) I couldn't stand its key bindings.
>
> 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]
Don't know gedit. I haved used kedit when I was new with Linux and
didn't know about Vim yet; from what I remember of it, it's a kind of
Notepad look-alike.
I have also used WordStar (how long ago was that?) at a time when its
keybindings could be used on several other MS-DOS editors, including the
editors built into Turbo Pascal and Turbo C. What I like in Vim is its
customizability, and more than anything else its comprehensive help.
Best regards,
Tony.
--
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