I've been annoyed by it for years, but maybe it has become more aggressive.
I *HATE* colors because I cannot read blue on black or yellow on white. Those colors are all too common. I *HATE* finding myself in the middle of a file because several months ago I edited the same file and that is where I left off. VIM is waaaay too smart for its own good. Yesterday, I googled the answer to shutting down VIM's memory: set viminfo='0,:0,<0,@0,f0,/0' cool except that vim responded with, "I saw that in your vimrc file, and I do know what you want to do, but I am not going to honor it because you left off something or other (and I won't tell you what)." OK, not quite true, but this is true: > Error detected while processing /old-home/bkorb/.vimrc: > line 39: > E527: Missing comma: viminfo='0,:0,<0,@0,f0,/0' > Press ENTER or type command to continue and adding a comma yields another error and fixing that goes back to this. Entirely equivalent to "I won't tell you what." Morals to the story: 1. Clear error messages are crucial 2. How do I tell VIM that I want it to be a stupid (non-fancy) text editor? -- 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
