RE: Contacting Vim Tips Wiki Admin JohnBeckett

Suresh Govindachar wrote:
> Hello JohnBeckett,
>
> Regarding your comments to
> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Mappings_to_facilitate_the_creation_of_text
> please see the recent (within past 22 hours) emails in the
> thread "Commands from insert mode".
>
> See also http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Quick_command_in_insert_mode

The vim_use discussion is:
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/browse_thread/thread/ab736b5a399312de

Sorry to have been dismissive in my comment last April at the
wiki. It looks like there are two strong points of view on the
topic, with some wanting to reconfigure Vim so as to avoid
normal mode, with others not seeing the point of that.

I cannot imagine a group of lawyers using Vim (unless they
happen to be familiar with Vim). The fundamental problem is that
if someone has trouble going to normal mode to navigate or
massage text, they will get into trouble when they accidentally
trigger some feature of Vim that confuses them.

At any rate, I would like the tip fixed so the concerns raised
by Fritzophrenic (who added the "dodgy" tag) are addressed. Then
we could add a note saying that some people like avoiding normal
mode, and some don't, and we could remove the comments and other
old stuff from the page.

John

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