Re: removing past start position

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 01:44:50PM -0700, Brian L. Matthews wrote:
> > You don't need CTRL-W at all if you don't mind hitting more keys, but
> > since we do have it and configurable behaviour, why not cover all the
> > variations people could want?
>
> While this is more software design philosophy than vim-specific, it's
> because every configurable behavior requires code to parse the new option
> (however minimal), code to use the new option, one or more tests,
> documentation changes, it makes the code that little bit harder to maintain
> and learn, and it makes learning to use the software a little bit harder. If
> the new behavior is significantly better, then yes, why not. I'm not sure if
> this qualifies.


If you want software minimalism, you have a ton of editors to choose
from.

> There's a difference between changing long-existing behavior and adding new
> behavior. Yes, I wouldn't be happy if bs=2 went away, I use that all the
> time (with BS).

Umm, bs already has three options. Arguing that 3 is the perfect number
seems really odd. Any option that you wouldn't use doesn't make vim
better for you, but it sure does for other people... that's a good thing!

I happily volunteer any of the options you use that I don't to make the
option counts neutral, how's that ;-)

Tavis.

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