Do you really need the Huge version just for an Editor? Do you think "most
users should install features they may never need in their life?".
Yes, I do need the huge version.
This really depends, if you start an application and use it until
shutdown then it makes little difference between huge and normal
version. But vim is a command you may use very often, a typical CLI use
of vim may require you enter and exit vim a lot.
For this kind of use, the startup-time of vim is important, if, like
many average users who have no budget for a new personal computer or
their company refuses to upgrade their 5+-year-old computer, the
startup-time of vim varies.
You want vim to start-up instantly, you customize your vim build. That's
quite straight forward. Many other software does not meet the situation,
because they don't typically launched by CLI and they will not be
enter/exit very often.
For advanced user like Matt, well, may have no difficulties identifying
distribution-specific vim directories.
Most people don't need to know that.
Yes they did. A typical vim user may like using vim key-binding in most
CLI applications, especially they may like to have vim-style syntax
highlight for most files. e.g. using the macro included with vim to
replace the system pager. This script lies in
/usr/local/share/vim/vim72/macros/less.sh
You'll have to know where your vim installed, before you can use the script.
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