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1. Any sufficiently complicated text editing program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of vim. 2. No new progra
by davvid 14y ago
1. Any sufficiently complicated text editing program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of vim.
2. No new programming environment will ever satisfy advanced vim users without adding a "vim emulation" mode, thus satisfying #1. (p.s. I am a vim user)
- balanceiskey15 14y agoI totally agree with #2. I'm curious whether you've tried Sublime's Vintage Mode and what things may have been slow or buggy. I'd say my Vim skills are somewhere between novice and intermediate and feel entirely out-of-place editing text without vim bindings nearby.
- davvid 14y agoBTW it was a parody of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspuns_tenth_rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspuns_tenth_rule
- balanceiskey15 14y agoOhhhhhhh, gotcha.
- antihero 14y agoST2 is actually way faster when you have to work with long lines and syntax highlighting. The one thing ST2 REALLY NEEDS is :set rnu.