On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 09:33:02AM -0400, Larry Kollar wrote: > > Marc Chantreux <e...@phear.org> wrote: > > > > hello, > > > >> - Update Chapter 3 to cover Vim (including gvim) > > > > please don't! > > > > what's nice about reading UTP is to discover the elegance and simplicity > > of it all ??? > > > > i'm a vibrant fan of vim but i have to admit that even to me, vim don't > > belong to this world of simplicity at all! plus: > > > > * both vim and neovim have vibrant ecosystems to promote their usages > > * there are so many ways to vim it > > > > ??? the way i'll update it would be to > > > > * mention vim at the top of the chapter and explain we need an extra > > book (eventualy just make a giant list of all the things you can > > read about from :help). > > * improve the chapter to take advantage of modern implementations of > > vi in modern unix. > > Your last point was exactly where I was going with this. Having your editor > (gvim in this case) in one window, and your shell in another, makes life so > much easier, for example. Cherry-pick one or two things like that, then > point out that we???re only scratching the surface of what modern versions > can do. Point them to vim.org for more info.
The one thing I'd support adding for vim is :split as that is a pretty big improvement over traditional vi.
