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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Fwd: Message from the family of Bram Moolenaar
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2023 19:03:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230806020345.GJ19141@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2gp_TVnEK6UxywQSRcg28z4DjOZKv30Cyfy-TgxgAnVmxYrQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 09:42:32PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 8:15???PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> I've used vim for a very long time, super grateful for Bram's work.  Vim
> > has all of the usefulness of vi and then tossed in buffers so vi wasn't
> > worse than emacs, I doubt I've used 10% of the stuff that he added to
> > vim.
> 
> 
> I doubt if anyone has, with the possible exception of Bram himself.  Vim's
> UI is the very model of a non-compact interface.

Not gonna engage.  I got a lot of usefulness from vim in the last 30 years,
it's been my editor of choice.  I'm grateful for it, it was better than I
could have done.
-- 
---
Larry McVoy           Retired to fishing          http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat

  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-06  2:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-05 20:08 [TUHS] " Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-08-06  0:15 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2023-08-06  1:42   ` John Cowan
2023-08-06  2:03     ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2023-08-06 13:30       ` Andy Kosela
2023-08-06  1:34 ` steve jenkin

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