On 2009-06-24 09:16 (-0700), StarWing wrote: > On Jun 24, 1:37 pm, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I don't believe it will ever become part of "mainline Vim". Now, if >> someone wants to program it as an "unofficial patch", good luck...
> but why? is it because of the conflict with Vi maintain design > philosophy? One reason is probably that a feature has to have clear benefits for anybody to bother implementing it. Vim is not perfect but for many people it's good enough. Another reason might be that everything in Vim development goes through Bram Moolenaar and one man (though very capable one) doesn't scale to everything. If someone else writes the feature it is likely merged to vim_extended repository[1] quite soon and then reviewing the patch will probably go to Bram's to-do list at position 1382 or something like that. :-) Of course this is not the official answer. Only thoughts of an individual. --------------- 1. http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/web/vim-patches --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
