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Vim 6.4 Released
file cabinet writes to tell us that for the first time in more than a year Vim has released a new version. Version 6.4 stable was released yesterday and while there are no new features added they are touting dozens of bug fixes.
a new version of emacs will never be released
I entirely agree. Editors like vi and emacs are decades behind the rest of the world in terms of usability and intuitiveness. Luckily, on a remote server I can always launch a modern text editor using X11 forwarding over ssh. I know just enough vi to type, search, save, and exit. If I hit q without hitting :, it switches to some recording mode and stops responding to normal commands. It I hit # when not in insert mode, it put a bright yellow highlight on whatever word the cursor was over, which persists even after I exit vi and start it again, until I manually edit the config file to delete the highlight keyword. I'm sure there are easy ways out of both problems, and the many others I've encountered, if I memorized the help file rather than just skimming it a few times, but I'd rather not spend any more time than I need to with such a backward piece of sh^Hoftware. I only use vi for very minor edits, like changing a single value in a config file. For everything else, I use a real text editor.