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The Union of Vim with KDE
Philippe Fremy writes "Thomas Capricelli, Mickael Marchand and me are pleased to present the first ever stable version of KVim, finally bringing "the power of VIM with KDE's friendliness".
This release contains a port of the standalone editor Vim 6.0 to Qt/KDE (2 and 3) and a KDE KPart Component. The component can currently embed either of GVim or KVim in Konqueror (screenshots), with out-of-process embedding. Further work is required before proper support for KDevelop, KMail and Kate is available, but things are moving forward."
As everyone knows, Vim is the best (only?) text editor, and KDE is the best (only?)
desktop system. Heh.
this would have been a great april fools joke. Kvim could include an add on module called kflame that automaticaly generates flaming posts. this would force Gvim to release Gflame. these would be followed by Kextinguish and Gwiz. oh please let it end!
Maybe Bill Gates, with his vi background, will consider using KDE in windows 2004... :)
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Why didn't Mr. Taco just say "in the red corner, VI and KDE, in the blue corner EMACS and GNOME, this is the MOTHER of all flamewars! FIGHT!"
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
http://www.darryl.com/vi.shtml
what's so good about vim? it doesn't come with a calender, a browser or the AI language. if you have to edit a 10k file, there is less overhead and it will strip down to fit on a rescue floppy disk if you subtract all that gvim gui nonsense.
the feature of having multifacits key typing is for the day when motion detecting is use for input. all the vim users will have an inherent twitch that will be reconizable to these devices and thus make them superior.
the beauty of vim is that you can flick people off while typing in code and without taking your hand off the keyboard. plus you don't have the distraction of pron from the web or usenet.
woohoo, this is fun. i'm going to waste more bandwidth.
bah. start over
"the power of VIM with KDE's friendliness"
What do you get then? Something that is almost user friendly?
> You've gotta sin to get saved.
I'm highly suspicious of this "integration" process. This uncessary addition of vim into KDE will deprive consumers of real choice, potentially leading to a stranglehold in the up-and-coming field of text editors. Will retailers have the option of replacing Kvim with a component of their own choosing? What will happen to the Kemacs, Kpico, and the just-started Ked projects? I've read before that KDE has not been developed with modularity in mind, making Kvim's removal impractical at best, so we may be witnessing a thinly-veiled attempt by KDE to subsume the entire editor market. Before we jump on the bandwagon here expousing the virtues of this marriage, we should take a lesson from history and recognize the many subtle consequences of this action.
Now how long until we get KDE for Emacs?
Menus will not be neccesary for helping people learn Vim once Vigor is fully integrated. Then we can all beg for redemption, and swear we'll never again mess with the text console goodness that is Vi.
You can't do this with Emacs. Emacs can't be inserted into any windowing system on any OS, because EMACS is it's own operating system.
/.ed already.... Looks like they should have been using IIS.
Silly rabbits never learn...
Vim for KDE, does this mean someone will port Vigor to KDE? KVigor?
By the taping of my glasses, something geeky this way passes
I think we're going to witness the developmental evolution of KDE application naming.
Simply prefixing the program with the letter 'k' is not enough, as those lamers developers over at Gnome can simply take the same program, s/qt/gtk+/g, and s/^k/g/g. How's a KDE developer to cope?
Here's an idea: Give all KDE apps girl's names. We have Kate; now all we need is Kim, Kamilla, Katherine, Kookie, Koko, Kitty, and so forth.
Gnome will no longer be able to follow. Aside from 'gertrude', there aren't that many female names beginning with the letter G. And in any case, what are they going to call 'gnome-kate'? Gate? Gkate? Gnate?
Mwahaha! Now all we need is a non-crashing build of KDE3.0, and we shall rule the world!
- undoware.ca
starting emacs-21.1 .....done .....
loading linux.el
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage