On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Alessandro Antonello <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 don't disagree with Tony either. We all agree that not everyone wants the same thing. What bothers me is not the fact that vim isn't trying to stuff some particular work flow/set of habits down my throat. Its the thought that with tens of thousands of (often very sophisticated) users, someone has already set up vim to do things about how I like. I wish I could have just met the guy and copied his stuff. Cream is an (unusually glossy) example of what I'd like to see. Its essentially a big pack of mods and consistifying glue that one guy put together and published. It isn't a plugin: plugins are more modular and focused on particular features. Nor is it a vim tip: its much bigger than that. Looking at its feature list I can tell Cream is not right for me. But if more people could somehow easily publish their entire vim environments and I could compare their feature easily, I'm sure I could find one I liked. With a large enough pool of people there's sure to be someone whose mind is warped in the same way as yours :) Britton -- 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
