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Re: Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Gareth Pearce <tilps at hotmail dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:50:39 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support?
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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
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