Re: Vim turns 30 today!

Steve,


On 2021-11-04 05:38, Steve Litt wrote:
> 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use said on Wed, 03 Nov 2021 18:48:37 +1100
>
>> Yegappan,
>>
>>
>> On 2021-11-03 15:21, Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote:
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/ql30pm/vim_turns_30_today/
>>>
>>> Happy 30th Birthday!!! Thanks Bram.
>>
>>
>> Wow! What a great program! - I don't think I will ever know all there
>> is to know about Vim but I keep learning!
>
> The absolute truth. I started with regular vi, and Vim was like a
> breath of fresh air. I use it for everything. My blood pressure journal
> is maintained with Vim. I use VimOutliner for all my organizational
> needs. Vim is absolutely indispensable in my workflow.


Exactly! Don't forget about VOom! - because of the pain of using the
primitive built-in bookmarks facility in browsers, sometime ago I
switched over to using a Vim text file with VOom plugin which is MUCH
nicer and much more efficient for me - here is a part of my Vim / VOom
file as an eg:

http://pricom.com.au/2021-11-03_13-41-37_Vim-VOom_Bookmarks.txt.png

and now I am making more use of Vim Browser too!

Phil.

>> +1 Thanks to Bram!
>
> +8030. That's the number of days I've enjoyably used Vim.
>
>
>> Out of interest, I started on Linux with the ~0.9 kernel - I think it
>> was Soft Landing Linux (?) - was Vim on that distro? (I think SLS came
>> on about a dozen 3.5" floppies . . ).
>
> I was late to the party with Red Hat 5.1, but better late than never
> :-)
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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