> Well, not everybody has the same wants and needs. There are already quite a > lot of plugins that come with Vim. Why should I download an additional > enormous package (a single tarball with the whole lot of vim.org scripts > maybe?) of which I'll use only a percent or two? (and the next guy will use > a _different_ percent or two of it, etc.)
I share my feelings with Tony. I had my first contact with VIM (GVim) when I was looking for an editor that doesn't depends on directional keys to move the cursor, because I was moving from a PC to a notebook. I found Cream, and I met VIM, and I fell in love. I love it because it was fully configurable and had (well, still has) resources that I never wonder that a text editor could have. I use Vim/GVim about six years now, six days of week. I have dozens of plugins. Some picked up in the vim.org others made by my self. And when I think that I already have a perfect environment to work with, I end up learning something new, and I can improve my configuration once again. And I will be able to improve it every time. Because Vim is like that. You can make it work with you, the way you like to do things. If I am not boring you yet I will say a little more. Today I do almost everything with VIM/GVim. I write e-mails with it (including this one), proposals, contracts and documents with it. And I found Vimperator, a Firefox plugin, that makes my navigation a Vim like experience. IMHO Vim/GVim is the perfect concept of a "personal/do things in your own way" editor. -- Alessandro Antonello -- 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
