On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:05:21PM +0300, Boyko Bantchev wrote: > On 3 August 2010 21:54, H Xu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Many people quit using vim because they think vim is not as powerful as > > emacs. However, mostly this is because they don't install vim plugins. > > The way you put it already places Vim in an inferior position w.r.t. > Emacs. As if something must be done to catch up with Emacs. > I see the power of Vim not in the availability of many plug-ins that > one could add to it, nor even in the fact that it is easy for most > people to write their own plug-ins. The power that I value lies in > the economy of editing labour that the plain Vim makes possible in my > everyday work. Vim does such a great job precisely in manipulating text.
Exactly my thoughts and experience with Vim: it's productive out of the box, even in the tiny version. For example, I have a small vimrc, mostly gathered from the Vim wiki and this list, but when I'm on a fresh OS install with no customization I still feel at home. Vlad -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
