From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 18 04:07:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA24661 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 18 May 1997 04:07:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from matrix.42.org (sec@matrix.42.org [192.68.213.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA24647 for ; Sun, 18 May 1997 04:07:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sec@localhost) by matrix.42.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA18591; Sun, 18 May 1997 13:06:41 +0200 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Path: sec From: sec@42.org (Stefan `Sec` Zehl) Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.hackers Subject: Re: vim vs. nvi? Date: 18 May 1997 13:06:40 +0200 Organization: Internet@home Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <19970516203228.50252@crh.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.0-2 BETA UNIX) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article , Brian Tao wrote: > > I guess the only real way is to have some people in core who are vi > > users to try it out and give it a spin and see what they think. I > > myself am definatly sold.. If not for the syntax coloring alone.. > Thumbs up from me. I can no longer function in standard vi or > nvi, and vim is one of the first things I install on every new FreeBSD > system I use (after tcsh, screen and ncftp2 ;-)). Jepp, i vote for vim, too :) - it comes right afte screen (with WINDOW_MAX increased :-) and zsh. CU, Sec -- Programs that make a computer worth to use: FreeBSD, zsh, mutt, wm2, procmail, vim, perl, less, LaTeX, fetch, slrn, screen, ssh, pgp, ircII