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That's absolutely the opposite of everything I love about vi -- that I neither need nor want to customize it! I can sit down at a new Unix box 25 years in the
by blasdel 17y ago
That's absolutely the opposite of everything I love about vi -- that I neither need nor want to customize it!
I can sit down at a new Unix box 25 years in the past or future, and not be frustrated editing a file.
- pyre 17y agoUsually people don't customize the 'core' bindings/functionality. It's usually about complementing it with things that make your life easier.
- jamesbritt 17y agoExactly. I want :w and such to always do what they do. But I also want my assorted helper macros and mappings so I can avoid typing boilerplate code and so on. NetBeans has a vi plugin, which isn't bad, but I'm forever trying to do things that are only defined in my resource files and plugins, so I end up editing code in vi and using NetBeans for specific tasks (GUI editing, usually).