On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > Indeed, I often work on FreeBSD & OpenBSD boxes where nvi is the > default vi instead of vim. I find myself missing a couple things > like text objects, folding, multiple windows, and expression > evaluation (whether as a register or as a sub-replace-special) the > most. Syntax highlighting can be nice, but I can get along without > it.
IIUC, expression evaluation (and the variables, functions, and conditional branches and loops that go with it) is the one feature which makes Vim script language Turing-complete, and that makes a hell of a huge difference when writing one's vimrc. Other features are great to have too, of course. Oh, sure I could get along without syntax highlighting, but given the choice I would take it. Not only when reading the help as I already mentioned, but when writing HTML i've oftentimes got my attention alerted by "weird" highlighting to some typo I'd made. Best regards, Tony. -- -- 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 because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
