That's both an advantage and a disadvantage in my book. The upside is the scripting language is pretty awesome (in my mind). Presumably it would have taken sign

That's both an advantage and a disadvantage in my book. The upside is the scripting language is pretty awesome (in my mind). Presumably it would have taken significantly longer to write full handling for the vi scripting language. TextMate bundles seem to be more limited, except insofar as they invoke external scripts. I do get what you're saying though. You lose a great deal of existing work because of that. I considered vico a new editor built on the base concept of vim, rather than a total replacement, and in that sense I think it succeeds very well.