AFAIK, Vim was already working on the last 3 points you mentioned. That
is, species ascension over Emacs users..
(more fire in the furnace)
;)
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On Wed, 10 May 2006, Russell Bateman wrote:
If vim doesn't take this next step of incorporating a full shell, where will
it be on the road to becoming an operating system like emacs? And what of the
future beyond that (space travel, species ascension, world peace and the end
to hunger)?
;-)
Scot P. Floess wrote:
Personally, isn't it an issue of preference? I mean, on a Linux system, if
you use an xterm plus a gvim window...why do you need this functionality in
your editor? The fact the editor will allow you to issue a shell command
is nice...but one can easily argue moving the mouse to the xterm to issue
commands is -more- than sufficient. I don't think ViM is supposed to be an
integrated development environment more than a really good, rock solid
editor. The fact that you can compile from it...is also cool too. But
heck with an xterm, ant, ViM (with tabbed windows) - does one really need
more than that ;)
Jerin Joy wrote:
Hi,
I'm able to run !mkdir.. etc.
I was thinking something similar to emacs where I can have a different
tab? open where I can compile my files, keep working for 2 weeks and
search back through the text for the first command I typed in.
But I guess its a design decision whether or not to add this
functionality to vim.
thanks,
Jerin
On 5/10/06, Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jerin Joy wrote:
> I was just wondering if adding shell support to vim is a feature thats
> being considered. It would be great to be able to run commands from
> vim instead of having to shift to terminal to do so.
> I've seen vim shell but its a separate plugin:
> http://www.wana.at/vimshell/
Not really. Vim is an editor, not a shell, command line interface or
windowing system. You can already do ":!cmd", that should be
sufficient.
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