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Most of us use vim. That’s ad supported and I think most us can agree it’s not awful. It’s certainly possible to do ads well (maybe even more common in termina

by swiley 7y ago

Most of us use vim. That’s ad supported and I think most us can agree it’s not awful. It’s certainly possible to do ads well (maybe even more common in terminal software.) I personally don’t have any experience with ads in NPM though.

rrss 7y ago
Vim isn't ad-supported. Vim has one messsage that you might consider an ad, and the money doesn't support vim's development, it goes to charity. I think it also used to be possible to donate to vim directly to support the development, but I think that money goes to charity now too. (I personally don't think "help poor children in Uganda by donating" is an ad).
- 0xffff2 7y ago
  Where exactly is this message? I use Vim fairly often and I've never seen it...
  - JonathanMerklin 7y ago
    :help license I think in earlier vim versions, you could see a message if you opened vim without a file (vim -u NONE # to prevent .vimrc from doing whatever shenanigans you've set up)
    - 0xffff2 7y ago
      Huh. My .vimrc is pretty simple and definitely doesn't include a "don't show donation messages" line, but I do see the message on the front screen when I do `vim -u NONE`. It's not there when I execute `vim`.
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  - mras0 7y ago
    When you start Vim (without arguments) it says "VIM - Vi IMproved" .... "Help poor children in Uganda! type :help iccf<Enter> for information". I just noticed that it actually cycles a few through messages now (version 8.something), so you may have to restart a couple of times to see the message. But IIRC it used to always just display the "help children in Uganda" message.
    - 0xffff2 7y ago
      Strangely, it doesn't do that on any machine I have access to, despite the fact that I can find nothing in my .vimrc file that would suppress it. If I run `vim -u NONe` as the sibling comment suggested then I do see the message.
locke3891 7y ago
From the vim website: "Why those ads? The profits made from ads and links on vim.org go to ICCF Holland to help poor children in Uganda." Is there somewhere you can point that states ad profit is going to developers?
whyrusleeping 7y ago
Also the guy who wrote vim is now at google

by swiley 7y ago

rrss 7y ago

Vim isn't ad-supported. Vim has one messsage that you might consider an ad, and the money doesn't support vim's development, it goes to charity. I think it also used to be possible to donate to vim directly to support the development, but I think that money goes to charity now too. (I personally don't think "help poor children in Uganda by donating" is an ad).

0xffff2 7y ago
Where exactly is this message? I use Vim fairly often and I've never seen it...
- JonathanMerklin 7y ago
  :help license I think in earlier vim versions, you could see a message if you opened vim without a file (vim -u NONE # to prevent .vimrc from doing whatever shenanigans you've set up)
  - 0xffff2 7y ago
    Huh. My .vimrc is pretty simple and definitely doesn't include a "don't show donation messages" line, but I do see the message on the front screen when I do `vim -u NONE`. It's not there when I execute `vim`.
    - deleted 7y ago
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- mras0 7y ago
  When you start Vim (without arguments) it says "VIM - Vi IMproved" .... "Help poor children in Uganda! type :help iccf<Enter> for information". I just noticed that it actually cycles a few through messages now (version 8.something), so you may have to restart a couple of times to see the message. But IIRC it used to always just display the "help children in Uganda" message.
  - 0xffff2 7y ago
    Strangely, it doesn't do that on any machine I have access to, despite the fact that I can find nothing in my .vimrc file that would suppress it. If I run `vim -u NONe` as the sibling comment suggested then I do see the message.

locke3891 7y ago

From the vim website: "Why those ads? The profits made from ads and links on vim.org go to ICCF Holland to help poor children in Uganda." Is there somewhere you can point that states ad profit is going to developers?

whyrusleeping 7y ago

Also the guy who wrote vim is now at google