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| author | Bram Moolenaar <bram@vim.org> |
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| 5294 | 1 *quotes.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2010 Nov 03 |
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| 4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar | |
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| 7 *quotes* | |
| 8 Here are some nice quotes about Vim that I collected from news and mail. | |
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| 11 vim (vim) noun - Ebullient vitality and energy. [Latin, accusative of vis, | |
| 12 strength] (Dictionary) | |
| 13 | |
| 14 Vim is so much better than vi that a great many of my old vi :map's became | |
| 15 immediately obsolete! (Tony Nugent, Australia) | |
| 16 | |
| 17 Coming with a very GUI mindset from Windows, I always thought of people using | |
| 18 Vi as some kind of outer space alien in human clothes. Once I tried I really | |
| 19 got addicted by its power and now I found myself typing Vim keypresses in the | |
| 20 oddest places! That's why I would like to see Vim embedded in every | |
| 237 | 21 application which deals with text editing. (José Fonseca) |
| 7 | 22 |
| 23 I was a 12-year emacs user who switched to Vim about a year ago after finally | |
| 24 giving up on the multiple incompatible versions, flaky contributed packages, | |
| 25 disorganized keystrokes, etc. And it was one of the best moves I ever made. | |
| 26 (Joel Burton) | |
| 27 | |
| 28 Although all of the programs were used during the preparation of the new and | |
| 29 revised material, most of the editing was done with Vim versions 4.5 and 5.0 | |
| 30 under GNU-Linux (Redhat 4.2). (Arnold Robbins, Israel, author of "Learning | |
| 31 the Vi editor") | |
| 32 | |
| 33 Out of all the open software i've ever seen and used, and i've seen a lot, Vim | |
| 34 is the best, most useful and highest quality to work with, second only to the | |
| 237 | 35 linux kernel itself. (Peter Jay Salzman) |
| 7 | 36 |
| 37 It's well worth noting that the _entirety_ of SourceForge was written using | |
| 237 | 38 Vim and its nifty PHP syntax highlighting. I think the entire SF.net tech |
| 7 | 39 staff uses Vim and we're all excited to have you aboard! (Tim Perdue) |
| 40 | |
| 41 Vim is one of a select bunch of tools for which I have no substitute. It is | |
| 42 a brilliant piece of work! (Biju Chacko) | |
| 43 | |
| 44 A previous girlfriend of mine switched to emacs. Needless to say, the | |
| 237 | 45 relationship went nowhere. (Geoffrey Mann) |
| 7 | 46 |
| 47 I rarely think about Vim, in the same way that I guess a fish rarely thinks | |
| 48 about water. It's the environment in which everything else happens. I'm a | |
| 49 fairly busy system administrator working on a lot of different platforms. Vim | |
| 50 is the only thing that's consistent across all my systems, and it's just about | |
| 51 the only thing that doesn't break from time to time. When a new system comes | |
| 52 in the door without Vim, I install it right away. Great to have a tool that's | |
| 53 the same everywhere, that's completely reliable, so I can ignore it and think | |
| 237 | 54 about other things. (Pete Schaeffer) |
| 7 | 55 |
| 56 Having recently succeeded in running Vim via telnet through a Nokia | |
| 57 Communicator, I can now report that it works nicely on a Palm Pilot too. | |
| 58 (Allan Kelly, Scotland) | |
| 59 | |
| 60 You've done a tremendous job with 'VIM', Bram! The more I use it, the more | |
| 61 impressed I get (I am an old 'vi' die hard who once started out with early | |
| 62 versions of 'emacs' in the late 1970's and was relieved by finding 'vi' in the | |
| 63 first UNIX I came across in 1983). In my opinion, it's about time 'VIM' | |
| 64 replace 'emacs' as the standard for top editors. (Bo Thide', Sweden) | |
| 65 | |
| 237 | 66 I love and use VIM heavily too. (Larry Wall) |
| 7 | 67 |
| 68 Vi is like a Ferrari, if you're a beginner, it handles like a bitch, but once | |
| 237 | 69 you get the hang of it, it's small, powerful and FAST! (Unknown) |
| 7 | 70 VIM is like a new model Ferrari, and sounds like one too - "VIIIIIIMMM!" |
| 71 (Stephen Riehm, Germany) | |
| 72 | |
| 73 Schon bei Nutzung eines Bruchteils der VIM-Funktionen wird der Benutzer recht | |
| 74 schnell die Vorzuege dieses Editors kennen- und schaetzenlernen. | |
| 75 Translated: Even when only using a fraction of VIM-functions, the user will | |
| 76 quickly get used to and appreciate the advantages of this editor. (Garry | |
| 77 Glendown, conclusion of an article on VIM in iX magazine 9/1998) | |
| 78 | |
| 79 I've recently acquired the O'Reilly book on VI (it also discusses VIM | |
| 237 | 80 in-depth), and I'm amazed at just how powerful this application is. (Jeffrey |
| 7 | 81 Rankin) |
| 82 | |
| 83 This guide was written using the Windows 9.x distribution of GVIM, which is | |
| 84 quite possibly the greatest thing to come along since God created the naked | |
| 237 | 85 girl. (Michael DiBernardo) |
| 7 | 86 |
| 87 Boy, I thought I knew almost everything about VIM, but every time I browse the | |
| 88 online documentation, I hit upon a minor but cool aspect of a VIM feature that | |
| 89 I didn't know before! I must say the documentation is one the finest I've | |
| 90 ever seen in a product -- even better than most commercial products. | |
| 91 (Gautam Mudunuri) | |
| 92 | |
| 93 VIM 4.5 is really a fantastic editor. It has sooooo many features and more | |
| 94 importantly, the defaults are so well thought out that you really don't have | |
| 95 to change anything!! Words cannot express my amazement and gratitude to the | |
| 96 creators of VIM. Keep it up. (Vikas, USA) | |
| 97 | |
| 98 I wonder how long it will be before people will refer to other Vi editors as | |
| 99 VIM clones? (Darren Hiebert) | |
| 100 | |
| 101 I read about [auto-positioning-in-file-based-on-the-errors-from-make] in one | |
| 102 of those "Perfect Programmer's Editor" threads and was delighted to discover | |
| 103 that VIM already supports it. (Brendan Macmillan, Australia) | |
| 104 | |
| 105 I just discovered VIM (5.0) and I'm telling everyone I know about it! | |
| 237 | 106 I tell them VIM stands for VI for the new (M)illenium. Thanks so much! |
| 7 | 107 (Matt F. Valentine) |
| 108 | |
| 109 I think from now on "vi" should be called "Vim Imitation", not the other way | |
| 110 around. (Rungun Ramanathan) | |
| 111 | |
| 112 The Law of VIM: | |
| 113 For each member b of the possible behaviour space B of program P, there exists | |
| 114 a finite time t before which at least one user u in the total user space U of | |
| 115 program P will request b becomes a member of the allowed behaviour space B' | |
| 116 (B' <= B). | |
| 117 In other words: Sooner or later everyone wants everything as an option. | |
| 118 (Negri) | |
| 119 | |
| 120 Whenever I move to a new computing platform, the first thing I do is to port | |
| 121 VIM. Lately, I am simply stunned by its ease of compilation using the | |
| 122 configure facility. (A.M. Sabuncu, Turkey) | |
| 123 | |
| 237 | 124 The options are really excellent and very powerful. (Anish Maharaj) |
| 7 | 125 |
| 126 The Spring user-interface designs are in, and word from the boutiques is that | |
| 127 80x24 text-only mode is back with a *vengeance! Vi editor clone VIM burst onto | |
| 128 March desk-tops with a dazzling show of pastel syntax highlights for its 5.0 | |
| 237 | 129 look. Strident and customizable, VIM raises eyebrows with its interpretation |
| 7 | 130 of the classic Vi single-key macro collection. |
| 131 http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?back=archive98/now0327.txt&line=179#l | |
| 132 | |
| 133 I just wanted to take this opportunity to let you know that VIM 5 ROCKS! | |
| 134 Syntax highlighting: how did I survive without it?! Thank you for creating | |
| 135 mankind's best editor! (Mun Johl, USA) | |
| 136 | |
| 237 | 137 Thanks again for VIM. I use it every day on Linux. (Eric Foster-Johnson, |
| 7 | 138 author of the book "UNIX Programming Tools") |
| 139 | |
| 140 The BEST EDITOR EVER (Stuart Woolford) | |
| 141 | |
| 142 I have used most of VIM's fancy features at least once, many frequently, and I | |
| 143 can honestly say that I couldn't live with anything less anymore. My | |
| 144 productivity has easily doubled compared to what it was when I used vi. | |
| 145 (Sitaram Chamarty) | |
| 146 | |
| 147 I luv VIM. It is incredible. I'm naming my first-born Vimberly. (Jose | |
| 148 Unpingco, USA) | |
| 149 | |
| 150 Hint: "VIM" is "vi improved" - much better! (Sven Guckes, Germany) | |
| 151 | |
| 152 I use VIM every day. I spend more time in VIM than in any other program... | |
| 153 It's the best vi clone there is. I think it's great. (Craig Sanders, | |
| 154 Australia) | |
| 155 | |
| 156 I strongly advise using VIM--its infinite undo/redo saved me much grief. | |
| 157 (Terry Brown) | |
| 158 | |
| 159 Thanks very much for writing what in my opinion is the finest text editor on | |
| 160 the planet. If I were to get another cat, I would name it "Vim". | |
| 161 (Bob Sheehan, USA) | |
| 162 | |
| 163 I typed :set all and the screen FILLED up with options. A whole screen of | |
| 164 things to be set and unset. I saw some of my old friends like wrapmargin, | |
| 165 modelines and showmode, but the screen was FILLED with new friends! I love | |
| 166 them all! I love VIM! I'm so happy that I've found this editor! I feel | |
| 167 like how I once felt when I started using vi after a couple of years of using | |
| 168 ed. I never thought I'd forsake my beloved ed, but vi ... oh god, vi was | |
| 169 great. And now, VIM. (Peter Jay Salzman, USA) | |
| 170 | |
| 171 I am really happy with such a wonderful software package. Much better than | |
| 172 almost any expensive, off the shelf program. (Jeff Walker) | |
| 173 | |
| 174 Whenever I reread the VIM documentation I'm overcome with excitement at the | |
| 237 | 175 power of the editor. (William Edward Webber, Australia) |
| 7 | 176 |
| 177 Hurrah for VIM!! It is "at your fingertips" like vi, and has the extensions | |
| 178 that vi sorely needs: highlighting for executing commands on blocks, an easily | |
| 237 | 179 navigable and digestible help screen, and more. (Paul Pax) |
| 7 | 180 |
| 6530 | 181 The reason WHY I don't have this amazingly useful macro anymore, is that I |
| 7 | 182 now use VIM - and this is built in!! (Stephen Riehm, Germany) |
| 183 | |
| 237 | 184 I am a user of VIM and I love it. I use it to do all my programming, C, |
| 185 C++, HTML what ever. (Tim Allwine) | |
| 7 | 186 |
| 187 I discovered VIM after years of struggling with the original vi, and I just | |
| 6530 | 188 can't live without it anymore. (Emmanuel Mogenet, USA) |
| 7 | 189 |
| 190 Emacs has not a bit of chance to survive so long as VIM is around. Besides, | |
| 191 it also has the most detailed software documentation I have ever seen---much | |
| 192 better than most commercial software! (Leiming Qian) | |
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| 194 This version of VIM will just blow people apart when they discover just how | |
| 195 fantastic it is! (Tony Nugent, Australia) | |
| 196 | |
| 237 | 197 I took your advice & finally got VIM & I'm really impressed. Instant convert. |
| 7 | 198 (Patrick Killelea, USA) |
| 199 | |
| 200 VIM is by far my favorite piece of shareware and I have been particularly | |
| 237 | 201 pleased with version 3.0. This is really a solid piece of work. (Robert |
| 7 | 202 Colon, USA) |
| 203 | |
| 204 VIM is a joy to use, it is so well thought and practical that I wonder why | |
| 205 anybody would use visual development tools. VIM is powerful and elegant, it | |
| 206 looks deceptively simple but is almost as complex as a 747 (especially when I | |
| 207 look at my growing .vimrc), keep up that wonderful job, VIM is a centerpiece | |
| 208 of the free software world. (Louis-David Mitterand, USA) | |
| 209 | |
| 210 I cannot believe how great it is to use VIM. I think the guys at work are | |
| 211 getting tired of hearing me bragging about it. Others eyes are lighting up. | |
| 212 (Rick Croote) | |
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214 Emacs takes way too much time to start up and run, it is too big and bulky for |
| 7 | 215 effective use and the interface is more confusing than it is of any help. VIM |
| 216 however is short, it is fast, it is powerful, it has a good interface and it | |
| 217 is all purpose. (Paal Ditlefsen Ekran) | |
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| 219 From the first time I got VIM3.0, I was very enthusiastic. It has almost no | |
| 220 problems. The swapfile handling and the backup possibilities are robust, also | |
| 221 the protection against editing one file twice. It is very compatible to the | |
| 222 real VI (and that is a MUST, because my brain is trained over years in using | |
| 223 it). (Gert van Antwerpen, Holland) | |
| 224 | |
| 225 Visual mode in VIM is a very powerful thing! (Tony Nugent, Australia) | |
| 226 | |
| 227 I have to say that VIM is =THE= single greatest piece of source code to ever | |
| 228 come across the net (Jim Battle, USA). | |
| 229 | |
| 230 In fact, if you do want to get a new vi I'd suggest VIM-3.0. This is, by | |
| 231 far, the best version of vi I've ever seen (Albert W. Schueller). | |
| 232 | |
| 233 I should mention that VIM is a very good editor and can compete with anything | |
| 234 (Ilya Beloozerov). | |
| 235 | |
| 236 To tell the truth sometimes I used elvis, vile, xvi, calvin, etc. And this is | |
| 237 the reason that I can state that VIM is the best! (Ferenc Deak, Hungary) | |
| 238 | |
| 239 VIM is by far the best editor that I have used in a long time, and I have | |
| 240 looked at just about every thing that is available for every platform that I | |
| 241 use. VIM is the best on all of them. (Guy L. Oliver) | |
| 242 | |
| 243 VIM is the greatest editor since the stone chisel. (Jose Unpingco, USA) | |
| 244 | |
| 245 I would like to say that with VIM I am finally making the 'emacs to vi' | |
| 246 transition - as an Editor it is so much better in many ways: keyboard layout, | |
| 237 | 247 memory usage, text alteration to name 3. (Mark Adam) |
| 7 | 248 |
| 249 In fact, now if I want to know what a particular setting does in vi, I fire up | |
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250 VIM and check out its help! (Nikhil Patel, USA) |
| 7 | 251 |
| 252 As a vi user, VIM has made working with text a far more pleasant task than | |
| 253 before I encountered this program. (Steinar Knutsen, Norway) | |
| 254 | |
| 255 I use VIM since version 3.0. Since that time, it is the ONLY editor I use, | |
| 256 with Solaris, Linux and OS/2 Warp. I suggest all my friends to use VIM, they | |
| 257 try, and they continue using it. VIM is really the best software I have ever | |
| 237 | 258 downloaded from the Internet, and the best editor I know of. (Marco |
| 7 | 259 Eccettuato, Italy) |
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| 261 | |
| 262 In summary: | |
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| 265 \ \ / /| | '_ ` _ \ | / __| | |_| | | | || | ` | |
| 266 \ V / | | | | | | | | \__ \ | _ | |_| || | ` | |
| 267 \_/ |_|_| |_| |_| |_|___/ |_| |_|\___/ |_| ` | |
| 268 ____ _____ _ _ _____ _____ _ _ ` | |
| 269 / ___|_ _| | | | ___| ___| | | ` | |
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| 271 ___) || | | |_| | _| | _| |_|_| ` | |
| 272 |____/ |_| \___/|_| |_| (_|_) (Tony Nugent, Australia) ` | |
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