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Re: Eleven years of using vim

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On Tue, 4 Nov 2014 23:51:34 +0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded wrote:
> In comp.editors, Gordon Henderson  <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> wrote:
> > In article <m363ti$c4b$2@solani.org>, RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> >> http://statico.github.io/vim.html
> 
> FWIW, this article titled "After 11 years" is dated almost eighteen
> months ago, so it's likely 12 or 13 years now.
> 
> > [quoted text muted]
> > and the lack of an integrated compile/debug thingy - never needed it -
> > always been happy with Ctrl-z then Makefiles... I hate auto-indent too.
> > Split views - good, but so is firing up another xterm to edit another 
> > file.
> 
> I've been using vim longer than that guy,
> 

Good lord -- for me I think it's a quarter of a century. I started 
using it in the late 1980s because I could use the same editor and 
same preference file in VAX/VMS, Windows, and *NIX.

-- 
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
                                   http://OakRoadSystems.com
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Eleven years of using vim RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-11-02 20:24 +0000
  Re: Eleven years of using vim Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> - 2014-11-03 13:37 +0100
    Re: Eleven years of using vim Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-03 14:47 +0200
  Re: Eleven years of using vim Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2014-11-03 12:46 +0000
    Re: Eleven years of using vim gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-11-03 13:14 +0000
    Re: Eleven years of using vim Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-11-03 13:20 +0000
    Re: Eleven years of using vim Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2014-11-04 23:51 +0000
      Re: Eleven years of using vim Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2014-11-05 20:34 -0500
        Re: Eleven years of using vim gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2014-11-06 02:51 +0100
          Re: Eleven years of using vim Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2014-11-06 04:24 -0500
            Re: Eleven years of using vim gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2014-11-09 17:19 +0100
              Re: Eleven years of using vim DMcCunney <dennis.mccunney@gmail.com> - 2014-11-09 13:47 -0500
                Re: Eleven years of using vim gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2014-11-10 14:26 +0100
        Re: Eleven years of using vim Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-11-05 23:58 -0500
          Re: Eleven years of using vim Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2014-11-06 07:27 +0000
            Re: Eleven years of using vim Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-06 09:43 +0200
              Re: Eleven years of using vim Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2014-11-06 08:50 +0000
        Re: Eleven years of using vim Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2014-11-06 06:40 +0000
    Re: Eleven years of using vim Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2014-11-05 20:32 -0500
  Re: Eleven years of using vim Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-11-05 10:31 +0200
    Re: Eleven years of using vim Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-05 11:07 +0200
    Re: Eleven years of using vim Forsythe <none@example.com> - 2014-11-08 20:42 +0000

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