On Mon 18 May 2009 at 16:25:50 PDT John Beckett wrote: > >I totally agree with your analysis; I would go a little further and say >that many Vim tips and guides are more of a "look at how clever I am" >presentation than an honest attempt to engage a new user and show them >wtf they should do.
The main advantage of the book form over a wiki, imho, is that a book usually has a single author who provides a unifying perspective. Swaroop's "Byte of Vim" is another excellent example of this. (http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Vim) When a wiki has numerous authors, and no strong editorial hand or unifying plan, there is a tendency for it to seem as if each contributor is competing for attention. Thankfully, the Vim wiki seems to have avoided the kind of editing wars that plague Wikipedia. :-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
