[oclug]vimrc files.

Scott Moynes smoynes at nexus.carleton.ca
Thu Nov 14 15:30:18 EST 2002


* Strosberg, Bill (bstrosberg at rcpsc.edu) wrote:
> Remotely functional?  I'm always happy when plain vi works like plain
> vanilla vi on new systems I touch.  I don't have to read hidden .vimrc files
> to figure out what weird configurations someone else has bent vi into.  For
> some people, Ctrl-Alt-Elbow-Forehead may be the intuitive syntax-off macro,
> but I'd rather configure my own.  It takes a second to get a .vimrc file
> from a known host via netcat or ftp, and you are off and going on known
> turf.

Can we not let this thread turn into another ignorant editor war?

-- 
Scott Moynes http://www.icculus.org/openbox/
"Computer science is as much about computers
as astronomy is about telescopes." -- Dijkstra
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