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- Here are some quotes about Vim that I collected from news and mail (only the
- good ones, of course).
-
- Vim is so much better than vi that a great many of my old vi :map's became
- immediately obsolete! (Tony Nugent)
-
- The options are really excellent and very powerful. (Anish Maharaj)
-
- The BEST EDITOR EVER (Stuart Woolford)
-
- Hint: "vim" is "vi improved" - much better! (Sven Guckes)
-
- I strongly advise using vim--its infinite undo/redo saved me much grief.
- (Terry Brown)
-
- 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)
-
- 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)
-
- This version of vim will just blow people apart when they discover just how
- fantastic it is! (Tony Nugent)
-
- I took your advice & finally got vim & I'm really impressed. Instant convert.
- (Patrick Killelea)
-
- 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)
-
- 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)
-
- Visual mode in vim is a very powerful thing! (Tony Nugent)
-
- I have to say that vim is *THE* single greatest piece of source code to ever
- come across the net (Jim Battle).
-
- 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).
-
- 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)
-
- 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)
-
-
- In summary:
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- \ \ / (_)_ __ ___ (_)___ | | | |/ _ \_ _|
- \ \ / /| | '_ ` _ \ | / __| | |_| | | | || |
- \ V / | | | | | | | | \__ \ | _ | |_| || |
- \_/ |_|_| |_| |_| |_|___/ |_| |_|\___/ |_|
- ____ _____ _ _ _____ _____ _ _
- / ___|_ _| | | | ___| ___| | |
- \___ \ | | | | | | |_ | |_ | | |
- ___) || | | |_| | _| | _| |_|_|
- |____/ |_| \___/|_| |_| (_|_)
- (Tony Nugent)
-