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Re: Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support?


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Thu, 1 May 2003, Gareth Pearce wrote:


(*) Personally, I think perl support in vim would be nice, but I'm
absolutely against adding a perl dependence to the vim package.  There's
no reason to drag in yet another 6.5M of stuff if all I want is an editor.
If that were desirable, I'd just install emacs.

if 'all i want is an editor' then why get vim at all. ;)

Gareth - no bias here, move along, nothing to see.


Because the "cat/sed" combination is much harder to use :)

On second thought, make that a "visual editor"...
	Igor

For the extremely masochistic, there's always just plain old `ed`.


Cheers,
Nicholas



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