On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 05:56:46PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
>my first reaction to russ' note was that vim hasn't so much provided
>an editor, but an editor development platform for people who don't
>want to start from scratch.

You're thinking of Emacs. Vim, internally and externally, is a 
monolithic mess (I'm no Emacs appologist, by the way). It's got 
scripting languages and knobs and bells and whistles and chimes 
and thorns cyanide. But it's not a platform. It's an editor that 
you can try to mangle to behave in ways it normally wouldn't. 
Emacs, though, is an OS, which has some editor functionality. 
It's a platform on which to build an editor. It's also large, 
complex, and beyond my ability to wield.

-- 
Kris Maglione

Any line, however short, is still too long.