On 9/22/06, A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > For the sake of argument, glancing through your list again I find none > of them to be essential. The only feature out of the list that I use > most is the "matchit", the rest, I don't either (regularly) use or need. Not even the help? Then you've got a better (and more encyclopaedic) memory than mine. > In fact most of these features didn't even exist in older Vim versions > (which was still a lot better than Vi). I don't remember Vim versions older than 6.1 but I would expect them to have had a help system.
When I started using Vim 11 years ago, the help was four to five pages long and the help was not displayed in a separate window. Even in those versions, Vim had more functionality than the stock Vi. - Yegappan
