On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:43 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > first of all: My interest and/or question, which let me post here, is > neither intended as the initial spark for a flame war nor as anything > _against_ someone or something. May be it is a kind of "exploring the > psychology of the vim human". And: English isn't my mothers tongue -- > anything sounding harsh, badly or negatively results only from this -- > it is by far NOT my intention! > > The start of all this was the observation, that there are many > editors out there, which are rated differently and often on a > scale from totally bad to fantastic. Every kind of review result > seems to exist. > > But with vim it seems (at least to me) a little different: Either > you hate it or you love it and will not touch anything else your whole > life long (I am exeggerating only a _little_ bit ;) ) > > The reason for this observation -- the polarization into mainly two groups > of people -- seems not only based on the properties of vim alone. > > I think (read: "I dont know for sure...") that there is a certain kind > of perception of text and/or handling of text by vim people, which > matches perfextly the way of text usage and presentation by vim itsself. > > May be I am totally wrong here -- so please understand this as a > big question mark ... I am just only driven by curiosity. > > Is there a certain perception of text and text handling by vim people > which may be distintive different from people who definetly dont like > vim? > > And again: May question does not indent to judge over "the better way > of the perception of text" !!! > > Is there a kind of vim psychology??? ;) > > I am interested in answers as I am interested in questions... :) >
Well a perspective from someone very new to vim, who after one day with it wont go back to Textmate, I find it aesthetically appealing both in simplicity, beauty and from what I see, this is a project that has lived so long that so much of what vim does has been time tested, like a smooth pebble that has had years of polishing by the ocean, something that very few projects have while at the same time having a strong community.... although there is a lot to learn, any frustration has not been that there is buggy code or weird things going on but that I just dont understand it yet.... so far that has been the experience and appeal. And probably why I will stay long term. It reminds me a bit of the learning curve with Rails -- challenges and frustrations in general overcoming each one with a bigger picture intuitive understanding which applies to future situations. This is not always the case with apps and frameworks. > > Best regards, > mcc > > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
