Re: Contacting Vim Tips Wiki Admin JohnBeckett

On 14:14 Sat 10 Nov , John Beckett wrote:
> 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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I have removed an insulting and vulgar text in Polish from a comment.

Best regards,
Marcin

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