Vim 7 Released

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday May 8, 2006 @04:58AM from the time-to-get-your-upgrade-on dept.

houseofmore writes "After many years of development, Bram Moolenaar, creator of Vim, today announced version 7 of the widely used editor. New features included spell checking in up to 50 languages, intelligent completion, tab pages, extended undo branches and much more. Downloads available here for Unix, Windows, Mac and more."

3 of 665 comments (clear)

Long ago by BenHoltz · 2006-05-08 05:00 · Score: 0, Troll

I remember the first days of learning VIM.... Glad to see it progressing.
Vim mean... by sheepoo · 2006-05-08 05:19 · Score: 0, Troll

Vertigo In Madness
I still have not understood why people waste their time developing and using such pieces of software where you have to bang your head against the screen to make the editor work :)
Like someone said: Keep It Simple Stupid
Maybe the developer(s) of Vim should also know this
Re:I just can't get the hang of vim by mrtrumbe · 2006-05-08 05:41 · Score: 0, Troll

Yeah, well I have a punch card reader that I use exclusively for input on my system. Who's got the bigger "I'm a hardcore, old-school user" dick?
Seriously, though, I can't think of a reason a person would find syntax highlighting not useful. Then, to take it further, why a person would find it so UNhelpful that they found the need to turn it off. What is it, exactly? Does it somehow distract you? Are you color blind? Do you think it slows down your editing experience? Does it mess up highlighting (something I've never experienced)?
Given that a document you are editing has content that has a well structured syntax, highlighting will help you make visual distinctions between unlike syntactical structures. This makes individual structures easier to pick out, increasing your ability to act on those structures. It's really just a question of speed.
Then, maybe I'm just too slow. Maybe for certain geniuses in our midst their brains instantly recognize constructs as distinct without any visual aide at all. If so, all the more power to ya. I'll continue to use my highlighting.
Taft