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The point of vim is to be vi but with more features. It's not to configure it however you dang well please. If this were the point, which it isn't, you could use emacs, which can be configured in vastly more dang ways. Including ways which are a superset of vi, as you yourself admit.
> emacs, which can be configured in vastly more dang ways. Including ways which are a superset of vi, as you yourself admit. lol I think this may be turning into a emacs/vim war :) > The point of vim is to be vi but with more features. What defines the point of a tool is what its users make with it. Having vim with emacs short inside a binary I can run anywhere (from BSD to Windows, which I still love to use sometime…
I don't use emacs (except for rendering orglatex) or vim (ever, I do use vi, though!), you're just pattern matching onto "an emacs/vim war" because you want to.