Re: Official petition for Bram Moolenaar to become a front end developer

On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 8:05:25 PM UTC+2, Andrew Ray wrote:
> > Editing HTML is a pain. I hope someone fixes the indent plugin for
> > that. And no, it's not going to be part of core Vim, a plugin should be
> > able to handle it.
>
> Why is cindent in the core of vim? Why does C get special treatment?
> At first glance it makes it seem like vim has a language bias. I don't
> know the history though. *Is* it from vi?

C gets special treatment. See 'cindent', 'cscope', etc.
Lisp gets special treatment. See 'lispwords', etc.
nroff gets special treatment. See 'sections', 'paragraphs'.
And so on.

Vim is all about its history. So what? :)

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