Re: breaking with history ?

On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 23:20:22 +0200
Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de> wrote:


> I have written up a small list:
> http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/vim-development/breaking-with-the-past.html

I looked at that list, and speaking for myself, not one of those
features would be worth a huge amount of coding/recoding, with the
resulting bugs and possible loss of existing features.

> But its not long enough to to justify a fork. Fixing is still the way
> to go IMHO.

I'd prefer a fork to trying to do any of those things in the existing
Vim, if those things would require large amounts of coding or recoding.
At least that way, I'd still have "Vim Classic" to depend on, and if
there are kewl new features I want, then I could use "New Vim" to get
those features.

> So if you have small things which "always bothered" you

Yeah, VimL sucks hard. But I'd rather have to be required to learn and
use that arcane language than significantly disrupt the existing Vim.

A centralized, easy to read documentation of VimL would be just about
as good as replacing VimL with something else.

Vim can already use Python, Ruby and Lua in place of VimL. The problem
is that the distro builders don't uniformly put those things in.

One word about the feature concerning threads and Netbeans
imitation: Geez, Vim's an editor, not a way of life. If I wanted a way
of life, I'd already be using Emacs.

Thanks,

SteveT

Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

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