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Re:From TextMate to Vim by jamesbritt on Monday August 03, 2009 @05:23PM (#740139)
"It has a really great vim emulation"

Will it read in my .vimrc file and my custom scripts? That's the big win with vi for me, that I can customize and automate things.

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Re:From TextMate to Vim by blasdel on Monday August 03, 2009 @06:19PM (#740203)
That's absolutely the opposite of everything I love about vi -- that I neither need nor want to customize it!

I can sit down at a new Unix box 25 years in the past or future, and not be frustrated editing a file.

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Re:From TextMate to Vim by pyre on Monday August 03, 2009 @07:26PM (#740314)
Usually people don't customize the 'core' bindings/functionality. It's usually about complementing it with things that make your life easier.
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Re:From TextMate to Vim by jamesbritt on Monday August 03, 2009 @07:52PM (#740351)
Exactly. I want :w and such to always do what they do. But I also want my assorted helper macros and mappings so I can avoid typing boilerplate code and so on.

NetBeans has a vi plugin, which isn't bad, but I'm forever trying to do things that are only defined in my resource files and plugins, so I end up editing code in vi and using NetBeans for specific tasks (GUI editing, usually).

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