Vim

[Jan Rekorajski]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:

> On Wednesday 27 of April 2005 17:49, Jan Rekorajski wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 27 of April 2005 06:00, Adam Gołębiowski wrote:
> > > > Any objections on reversing Vim's bconds for perl/python/ruby/tcl
> > > > interpreters? If not, than in the name of 'we are feature rich' I am
> > > > going to enable these by default.
> > > >
> > > > At least I am going to enable perl interp, since it adds only perl-base
> > > > R: to few vim packages, and perl-base is already required by vim-rt.
> > >
> > > Enable these IMO. There is vim-static for those people who don't want
> > > additional deps.
> >
> > You don't know what you're talking about.
> I know what I'm talking.
> 
> > vim-static is /bin/vi and the 
> > first thing I do is alias vi=vim because vim-static is just too feature
> > poor.
> And tell us what are these so important features that you can't live without 
> them but _not_ so important as you don't want to install more deps to get 
> these?

It's just the way vi behaves, if I wanted it like that I wouldn't be
using vim.

> And remember that running vim-static as vi is different from running 
> exactly the same binary as for example vim.

I know this, but...

[baggins at home baggins]$ rpm -ql vim-static | grep vim
[baggins at home baggins]$ 

Where do you see vim here?

> > I can live with perl but python/ruby/tcl/etc is just an overkill. 
> perl isn't?

perl is common enough, a lot of things require it. Python and tcl? I install
them if I have no choice. Ruby? WTF is ruby? 

> > If you really want a huge monster with all bells and whistles just do a
> > vim-this-package-requires-a-lot subpackage :/
> If you have small hdd then use vim-static.

It's not the case of small hdd. It's the case that for purely marketing
reasons you want to clutter the distribution.

Janek
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