On 8/5/06, A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
- I don't know Emacs well enough to have a valid opinion regarding it;
So don't.
- I like Vim so much I have no incentive to learn Emacs;
Seems like a very conservative way of thinking.
- Discussion of Emacs features is not really on-topic on a Vim list.
I call "Bullshit!" on that one. How is Vim going to advance without taking inspiration from other editors? Sure, we can come up with our very own ideas, but understanding the "battlefield" and your "enemies" certainly makes things easier. Finally, having text properties opens up for some really funky features, like those already mentioned, more advanced abbreviations/code-completion, and so on. Sadly, the way Vim is designed does make it very hard to add this kind of feature. However, it can sort of be simulated by having marks that stick to the text position that they mark, instead of line + fixed column. (We don't have this kind of mark at the moment.) nikolai
