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Re: Vim 7.4 is released

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Post by negatmx » Sun, Aug 11, 2013, 8:09 AM UTC

venus wrote: post #89

dsrguru wrote: post #87

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Without a question, the one with text objects. Productivity is far greater with vim. Actually to be fair, Sublime's vim emulation mode implements a few text objects, but the proprietary source means no adding our own.

> Productivity is far greater with vim I don't agree with that at all. Vim is useful, perhaps, for a few text matching tricks but typing speed is rarely the bottleneck in programming. It's optimising for the wrong thing. The only people advocating for vim are those who have already gone through the pointless pain of 5 years learning to use the thing. It's basically a cult, or at least a club. And frankly, watching th…

I'm curious... What trivial tasks are vim power users struggling with?

Re: Vim 7.4 is released

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Post by rcarmo » Sun, Aug 11, 2013, 8:18 AM UTC

farslan wrote: post #65

rcarmo wrote: post #50

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Hi! Are you sure? Check out my build: https://github.com/rcarmo/macvim/releases/tag/7.4 EDIT: link to fixed release.

Do you have any email that I can contact you? There is no in your github profile

Google me, it's easy :)

Re: Vim 7.4 is released

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Post by chris_wot » Sun, Aug 11, 2013, 8:44 AM UTC

negatmx wrote: post #91

venus wrote: post #89

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> Productivity is far greater with vim I don't agree with that at all. Vim is useful, perhaps, for a few text matching tricks but typing speed is rarely the bottleneck in programming. It's optimising for the wrong thing. The only people advocating for vim are those who have already gone through the pointless pain of 5 years learning to use the thing. It's basically a cult, or at least a club. And frankly, watching th…

I'm curious... What trivial tasks are vim power users struggling with?

None. He's talking out of his hat!

Re: Vim 7.4 is released

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Post by chris_wot » Sun, Aug 11, 2013, 8:47 AM UTC

gaving wrote: post #36

I love vim, but:- http://www.vim.org/ http://www.sublimetext.com/ Which one would you want to use?

The one that you can modify the source and provide patches to, and that you can run in a terminal. And that doesn't cost anything.

Re: Vim 7.4 is released

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Post by reustle » Sun, Aug 11, 2013, 9:18 AM UTC

alexhancock wrote: post #85

Spell checking. Nice! The undo branching feature seems like it could be useful as well.

Doesn't ":set spell" already work?

Re: Vim 7.4 is released

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Post by rhizome31 » Sun, Aug 11, 2013, 10:26 AM UTC

gaving wrote: post #36

I love vim, but:- http://www.vim.org/ http://www.sublimetext.com/ Which one would you want to use?

I love that picture on the Vim homepage.

Re: Vim 7.4 is released

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Post by petepete » Sun, Aug 11, 2013, 11:11 AM UTC

bosie wrote: post #41

AlexanderDhoore wrote: post #39

I've been digging deeper and deeper into vimscript and also scripting vim with python. It's so amazing what you can do with just a few lines of hacky vimscript! Today I made it so that every time I open a .markdown file, vim compiles it to html and opens it in my browser (using 'open' command on OS X). It also updates it automatically every time I save or leave insert mode. I've also hacked together a python REPL ins…

share the markdown code if you don't mind?

vim-instant-markdown is an excellent plugin if you edit a lot of markdown content.

https://github.com/suan/vim-instant-markdown

Re: Vim 7.4 is released

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Post by dlitz » Sun, Aug 11, 2013, 12:23 PM UTC

graywh wrote: post #84

sigzero wrote: post #73

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You can put those on one line...and I do the same. :)

Only if the order is the same. E.g. :set go=aAcegimtv :set go-=vtmigecAa :set go? " guioptions=aAcegimtv

You can do it like this, though:

  set go-=T go-=r go-=L

Re: Vim 7.4 is released

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Post by sigzero » Sun, Aug 11, 2013, 12:35 PM UTC

graywh wrote: post #84

sigzero wrote: post #73

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You can put those on one line...and I do the same. :)

Only if the order is the same. E.g. :set go=aAcegimtv :set go-=vtmigecAa :set go? " guioptions=aAcegimtv

Interesting that the vim docs say nothing of order.

Re: Vim 7.4 is released

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Post by zeckalpha » Sun, Aug 11, 2013, 1:34 PM UTC

justinator wrote: post #88

mjn wrote: post #70

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I assume a degree with that title would lean towards the formal side of linguistics, which means you would certainly cover things like the Chomsky hierarchy in detail; after all linguistics is where the Chomsky hierarchy (though not regular languages) originated.

In this interview[1] he states that his degree is one that he designed himself (which his college allowed), and that he used his programming classes and experience as the second of two foreign languages he needed for his Linguistics degree (the first being Classical Greek). He calls this a, "hack". He talks about schooling after his undergrad, but doesn't go into what that was. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNAt…

He was doing Linguistics at UC Berkeley, too.