On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:00 AM, <romainlafourc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ideally, starting the program as 'vim' would automatically give the user the > improvements promised in the name. And 'vi' would hide all those improvements. > > Here is my list of options to set when run as 'vim': [...] > set hidden > > Because 'nohidden' is too inflexible and 'hidden' would prevent new users > from using tab pages as file proxies. [...]
I disagree. When I :quit a file, or otherwise |abandon| it, I want it to be quit, not to remain there in-memory-but-not-saved. I use 'autowriteall' to save it _to disk_ if possible, but I don't pretend that everyone will want that setting. And if I want my changes to be lost (which happens, but rarely) I explicitly use :q! instead of :q when quitting the file. If _you_ want to use 'hidden', then set it in your vimrc, but don't force every people who don't want it to explicitly ":set nohidden" in _their_ vimrc. When I first became a serious Vim user, I went through all the options and added vimrc lines for those where I wanted a nondefault value (or to be precise, a different value than what the vimrc_example.vim sets, since it sets most, but not all, of my preferred settings and I source it in my vimrc); I definitely did not add :set lines for _all_ of those whose defaults where the values I preferred; reading your post makes me thing maybe I should have after all. Best regards, Tony. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" 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_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
