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Re:Just Use Sublime Text by MetaCosm on Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:01AM (#5413038)
He tried to turn vim into an IDE, a role that vim specifically decided not to embrace, that will make anyone go a little crazy.

Vim is good at editing text, is extremely portable, and works great with a partner in crime like tmux.

I have used vim for 12+ years, and the complexity of his setup makes me a bit dizzy.

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Re:Just Use Sublime Text by pekk on Thursday March 21, 2013 @08:48AM (#5414633)
There is nothing wrong with using vim's intentionally built in extension mechanisms.
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Re:Just Use Sublime Text by MetaCosm on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:24PM (#5416283)
There is nothing wrong with using them, except that (as the article points out) they don't work terribly well, take a lot of effort to get right, and aren't the focus of the editor.

Sublime and Emacs are joys to extend versus Vim, that doesn't mean it can't be done, just that it is tough.

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