VIM 6.0 is Out

LinuxNews.pl writes "It's more then a year after releasing the first 6.0 alpha. Lot's of improvements (i.e. you can edit files via FTP!) - check them out on vim.org" Of course everyone knows that vim is the best text editor in the world. Anyone who tells you differently is either wrong, lying, or criminally insane. (Or an emacs user, in which case they are wrong, lying and criminally insane).

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-1 Flamebait

[tb3]

I'll be back tomorrow when the flamewar has cooled off.

bah

[ahknight]

Slashdot: Enabling useless holy wars since 199x.

Microsoft Word 6.0 Mac

[sulli]

Come on, everyone knows Microsoft Word 6.0 for the Macintosh is far and away the best text editor out there. I am shocked and amazed that anyone would still use these unix tools that don't have a Tip of the Day and pretty cut and paste buttons! Plus the macro language is extremely useful in Word 6.0 and later versions - if you can't automate your most important features, the program just isn't worth using.

Kill All Muslims. Destroy Islam. Exterminate Arabs

[Anonymous Coward]

Our dead cry out in tortured horror:

Kill all Muslims.

Kill all Mohammedans.

Kill all Arabs.

Kill all Towel Heads.

Kill all Camel Jockeys.

Kill all Dune Coons.

Kill all Islam.

Nuke their countries to hell.

Nuke them again.

Death to Islam.

I menstruate on Mecca. I wipe my ass with the Koran. I piss on Mohammed.

Vim

[Anonymous Coward]

Vim should be banned, and its users should be arrested as terrorists, and using terrorists (hackers and crackers) tools!!!

blah!

CmdrTaco, please...

[proxima]

"Of course everyone knows that vim is the best text editor in the world. Anyone who tells you differently is either wrong, lying, or criminally
insane. (Or an emacs user, in which case they are wrong, lying and criminally insane)."

Please, CmdrTaco, have some respect for different opinions. Many people like Vi/Vim, many people like Emacs/Xemacs. I personally have used and continue to use both for various things. I find vi great for editing configuration files and quick alterations to programs. I like xemacs for larger development and manual HTML editing.

Choices are good, and we should support that. My hope is that you were being sarcastic, but it sure sounded like you have an incredible distaste for Emacs, and thought anyone who used it must be an absolute idiot.

Use the right tool for the right job, and respect others' opinions as to which tool goes along with which job.

Another great feature

[the_other_one]

I can use vim 6.0 to create a website that disparages vim 6.0 and vim.org without having to worry about violating the license.

Yet one more way this is free as in speach.

VIM: it must suck being retarded.

[Anonymous Coward]

There: no meta content or hyper analysis, just the straight dope.

VI is 6 in Roman Numerals.

[clyons]

VI VI VI: The Editor of The Beast!