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Re: Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at netscape dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:27:38 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support?
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 May 2003, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> >
> >>>(*) Personally, I think perl support in vim would be nice, but I'm
> >>>absolutely against adding a perl dependence to the vim package. There's
> >>>no reason to drag in yet another 6.5M of stuff if all I want is an editor.
> >>>If that were desirable, I'd just install emacs.
> >>
> >>if 'all i want is an editor' then why get vim at all.
> >>;)
> >>
> >>Gareth - no bias here, move along, nothing to see.
> >
> > Because the "cat/sed" combination is much harder to use :)
> >
> > On second thought, make that a "visual editor"...
> > Igor
>
> For the extremely masochistic, there's always just plain old `ed`.
> Cheers,
> Nicholas
Yeah, I thought about it, shuddered, and added the "visual" above...
Igor
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