> IMO most serious vim users should compile their own vim. Only casual
> users should rely on distribution-specific version.
I don't know about that. A person can use Vim exclusively and very
efficiently without ever compiling it themselves. Vim is a powerful
tool no matter how you obtain it. I still would not have compiled
myself were it not for my playing around with Linux this year. On
Windows in particular, Steve Hall's "Cream" build is more than
sufficient for my needs, and kept up-to-date very well in terms of
both patches and runtime updates. Maybe on certain Linux distributions
which keep their Vim a year or more out of date this idea makes sense,
but I still think even "serious" users can work for years without ever
touching the C code.
I would say that "serious" users should learn vimscript, but that's
part of learning the editor. And they need not even know very much of
it.
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