On 12/02/09 21:17, J.A.J. Pater wrote:
> Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado schreef:
>> Keybindings are not what I miss in gedit ;) It's the entire power of Vim
>> what I miss.
> I feel the same way, but it is nice anyway - make everything vim-like.
> Like vimperator in Firefox
> (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4891), Vim with thunderbird,
> Vim like editing in terminal etc.
> If only it was possible to set everything default to vim like
> keybindings in Gnome...
>> Anyway, I don't think that plugins is a good way of adding power to an
>> editor. If only gedit
>> was programmable in the same way of Vim...
>>
>>
> Doesn't vim do plugins also?
> As far as I understand it you can use python together with vim and with
> gedit.
> But again it's not the same: Vim has it's own "language" which (to be
> honest) I don't find really attractive
>
> Adriaan
I don't know about gedit, but for many programs, the "plugins" are
actually binary files (for instance the Mozilla "plugins" as opposed to
the .xpi "extensions" and the .jar "themes", both of which are normally
sets of text files bundled into a .zip archive with its extension changed).
Vim's "global plugins", "filetype plugins" etc., OTOH, are just
particular cases of Vim "scripts", which are programs in an
easy-to-understand structured-programming interpreted language, whose
statements are just normal ex-commands; you could, if you wish, divide
them among "imperative statements" :let :set :echo :substitute :edit
:write etc., "flow control" statements :if :elseif :else :endif :while
:endwhile :break :try :catch :finally :endtry :call :return :source
:runtime :finish etc. and "declarative statements" :command :function
:map :loadkeymap etc.
For me, who have always found programming languages easy to learn
(starting with FORTRAN as a college freshman, BASIC in the demos of the
General-Electric time-sharing system, worked several years in COBOL,
also dabbled some in Honeywell-Bull series-200 Assembler/Easycoder,
PDP11 assembly language, MS-DOS batch language, Intel-8086 assembly
language, with some glances at ALGOL, PASCAL, C, bash scripting language
and even IBM-1401 assembly language about which I noticed a book at the
University Press while still in college), Vim scripting language is
remarkably easy, straightforward -- more so, it seems to me, than e.g.
bash scripting language -- while also quite powerful (which e.g. MS-DOS
batch language isn't).
Best regards,
Tony.
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