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- Here are some quotes about VIM that I collected from news and mail (only the
- good ones, of course :-).
-
- vim (vim) noun - Ebullient vitality and energy. [Latin, accusative of vis,
- strength] (Dictionary)
-
- VIM is so much better than vi that a great many of my old vi :map's became
- immediately obsolete! (Tony Nugent, Australia)
-
- Boy, I thought I knew almost everything about Vim, but every time I browse the
- online documentation, I hit upon a minor but cool aspect of a Vim feature that
- I didn't know before! I must say the documentation is one the finest I've
- ever seen in a product -- even better than most commercial products.
- (Gautam Mudunuri)
-
- VIM 4.5 is really a fantastic editor. It has sooooo many features and more
- importantly, the defaults are so well thought out that you really dont have to
- change anything!! Words cannot express my amazement and gratitude to the
- creators of VIM. Keep it up. (Vikas, USA)
-
- I wonder how long it will be before people will refer to other Vi editors as
- Vim clones? (Darren Hiebert)
-
- I read about [auto-positioning-in-file-based-on-the-errors-from-make] in one
- of those "Perfect Programmer's Editor" threads and was delighted to discover
- that VIM already supports it. (Brendan Macmillan, Australia)
-
- I just discovered VIM (5.0) and I'm telling everyone I know about it!
- I tell them VIM stands for VI for the new (M)illenium. Thanks so much!
- (Matt F. Valentine)
-
- I think from now on "vi" should be called "Vim Imitation", not the other way
- around. (Rungun Ramanathan)
-
- Whenever I move to a new computing platform, the first thing I do is to port
- Vim. Lately, I am simply stunned by its ease of compilation using the
- configure facility. (A.M. Sabuncu, Turkey)
-
- The options are really excellent and very powerful. (Anish Maharaj)
-
- I just wanted to take this opportunity to let you know that VIM 5 ROCKS!
- Syntax highlighting: how did I survive without it?! Thank you for creating
- mankind's best editor! (Mun Johl, USA)
-
- Thanks again for VIM. I use it every day on Linux. (Eric Foster-Johnson,
- author of the book "UNIX Programming Tools")
-
- The BEST EDITOR EVER (Stuart Woolford)
-
- I have used most of VIM's fancy features at least once, many frequently, and I
- can honestly say that I couldn't live with anything less anymore. My
- productivity has easily doubled compared to what it was when I used vi.
- (Sitaram Chamarty)
-
- I luv vim. It is incredible. I'm naming my first-born Vimberly. (Jose
- Unpingco, USA)
-
- Hint: "VIM" is "vi improved" - much better! (Sven Guckes, Germany)
-
- I use VIM every day. I spend more time in VIM than in any other program...
- It's the best vi clone there is. I think it's great. (Craig Sanders,
- Australia)
-
- I strongly advise using VIM--its infinite undo/redo saved me much grief.
- (Terry Brown)
-
- Thanks very much for writing what in my opinion is the finest text editor on
- the planet. If I were to get another cat, I would name it "Vim".
- (Bob Sheehan, USA)
-
- I typed :set all and the screen FILLED up with options. A whole screen of
- things to be set and unset. I saw some of my old friends like wrapmargin,
- modelines and showmode, but the screen was FILLED with new friends! I love
- them all! I love VIM! I'm so happy that I've found this editor! I feel
- like how I once felt when I started using vi after a couple of years of using
- ed. I never thought I'd forsake my beloved ed, but vi ... oh god, vi was
- great. And now, VIM. (Peter Jay Salzman, USA)
-
- I am really happy with such a wonderful software package. Much better than
- almost any expensive, off the shelf program. (Jeff Walker)
-
- Whenever I reread the VIM documentation I'm overcome with excitement at the
- power of the editor. (William Edward Webber, Australia)
-
- Hurrah for VIM!! It is "at your fingertips" like vi, and has the extensions
- that vi sorely needs: highlighting for executing commands on blocks, an easily
- navigable and digestible help screen, and more. (Paul Pax)
-
- The reason WHY I don't have this amazingly useful macro any more, is that I
- now use VIM - and this is built in!! (Stephen Riehm, Germany)
-
- I am a user of VIM and I love it. I use it to do all my programming, C,
- C++, HTML what ever. (Tim Allwine)
-
- I discovered VIM after years of struggling with the original vi, and I just
- can't live without it any more. (Emmanuel Mogenet, USA)
-
- Emacs has not a bit of chance to survive so long as VIM is around. Besides,
- it also has the most detailed software documentation I have ever seen---much
- better than most commercial software! (Leiming Qian)
-
- This version of VIM will just blow people apart when they discover just how
- fantastic it is! (Tony Nugent, Australia)
-
- I took your advice & finally got VIM & I'm really impressed. Instant convert.
- (Patrick Killelea, USA)
-
- VIM is by far my favorite piece of shareware and I have been particularly
- pleased with version 3.0. This is really a solid piece of work. (Robert
- Colon, USA)
-
- VIM is a joy to use, it is so well thought and practical that I wonder why
- anybody would use visual development tools. VIM is powerful and elegant, it
- looks deceptively simple but is almost as complex as a 747 (especially when I
- look at my growing .vimrc), keep up that wonderful job, VIM is a centerpiece
- of the free software world. (Louis-David Mitterand, USA)
-
- I cannot believe how great it is to use VIM. I think the guys at work are
- getting tired of hearing me bragging about it. Others eyes are lighting up.
- (Rick Croote)
-
- Emacs takes way to much time to start up and run, it is to big and bulky for
- effective use and the interface is more confusing than it is of any help. VIM
- however is short, it is fast, it is powerful, it has a good interface and it
- is all purpose. (Paal Ditlefsen Ekran)
-
- From the first time I got VIM3.0, I was very enthousiastic. It has almost no
- problems. The swapfile handling and the backup possibilities are robust, also
- the protection against editing one file twice. It is very compatible to the
- real VI (and that is a MUST, because my brain is trained over years in using
- it). (Gert van Antwerpen, Holland)
-
- Visual mode in VIM is a very powerful thing! (Tony Nugent, Australia)
-
- I have to say that VIM is *THE* single greatest piece of source code to ever
- come across the net (Jim Battle, USA).
-
- In fact, if you do want to get a new vi I'd suggest VIM-3.0. This is, by
- far, the best version of vi I've ever seen (Albert W. Schueller).
-
- I should mention that VIM is a very good editor and can compete with anything
- (Ilya Beloozerov).
-
- To tell the truth sometimes I used elvis, vile, xvi, calvin, etc. And this is
- the reason that I can state that VIM is the best! (Ferenc Deak, Hungary)
-
- VIM is by far the best editor that I have used in a long time, and I have
- looked at just about every thing that is available for every platform that I
- use. VIM is the best on all of them. (Guy L. Oliver)
-
- VIM is the greatest editor since the stone chisel. (Jose Unpingco, USA)
-
- I would like to say that with VIM I am finally making the 'emacs to vi'
- transition - as an Editor it is so much better in many ways: keyboard layout,
- memory usage, text alteration to name 3. (Mark Adam)
-
- In fact, now if I want to know what a particular setting does in vi, I fire up
- VIM and check out it's help! (Nikhil Patel, USA)
-
- As a vi user, VIM has made working with text a far more pleasant task than
- before I encountered this program. (Steinar Knutsen, Norway)
-
- I use VIM since version 3.0. Since that time, it is the ONLY editor I use,
- with Solaris, Linux and OS/2 Warp. I suggest all my friends to use VIM, they
- try, and they continue using it. VIM is really the best software I have ever
- downloaded from the Internet, and the best editor I know of. (Marco
- Eccettuato, Italy)
-
-
- In summary:
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