Saturday, January 3, 2015

Re: default indentation of perl code

On Jan 3, 2015 2:23 PM, "kamaraju kusumanchi" <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote:
> My question is why are these options not turned on by default? These
> would make life so much easier for a novice perl programmer using the
> vim editor. Often learning a new language is hard enough... why add
> the additional pain of mastering the editor?

For what it's worth, I usually say that learning Vim is like learning a programming language for text editing, and that one should not learn a(nother) new language while learning Vim.

In particular, don't attempt to learn LaTeX *and* Vim (or Emacs) when you start writing your bachelor's thesis!

Best regards,
Mathias Rav

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