Vim is hard, I just want to click around

Re:Vim is hard, I just want to click around by edanm on Monday September 05, 2011 @10:56AM (#2962366)

One of the biggest shortcomings of vim is the lack of a good ido-mode style file-opener. People seem to rave about command-t, although getting it set up on Windows proved too annoying for me.

FuzzyFinder is nice, but graphically it's a mess. Like everything else in vim, really.

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Re:Vim is hard, I just want to click around by jrockway on Monday September 05, 2011 @11:20AM (#2962429)

This is the biggest meta-shortcoming of vim: the fact that it doesn't come with a built-in programming language. This forces extension authors to bring their own, with the expected consequences.

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Re:Vim is hard, I just want to click around by adgar on Monday September 05, 2011 @01:07PM (#2962740)

It has vimscript, but vimscript is at best emacs-lisp's inbred nephew who is just as old but huffs glue and has sex with chickens.

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Re:Vim is hard, I just want to click around by gnosis on Monday September 05, 2011 @02:06PM (#2962923)

Actually, you can also use mzscheme, perl, python, ruby, and lua to script vim.

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Re:Vim is hard, I just want to click around by esk on Monday September 05, 2011 @02:29PM (#2962969)

Indeed, but that's what the grandparent is saying—you need to bring your own language to the party.

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