On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:23:07PM -0700, Sean O'Rourke wrote: > "Jarkko Hietaniemi" <j...@iki.fi> writes: > > > On 5/17/07, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> wrote: > >> I had to use strace, awk, md5sum and diff. To configure an editor. > > > > Serves vi(m) users right. > > Yeah, your editor should focus on being an Editor. Anything > else, like being an Editor Configurer, is just bloat.
Right like a turing complete scripting language that only exists inside the one editor and nowhere else, has terrible syntax and clunky usage. That would be bloaty and ungainly and a terrible idea. Good thing vim has nothing like that! -josh (a vim user)