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List:       vim-dev
Subject:    RE: Vim's future ?
From:       "W. Bruce Maguire II" <maguire () ti ! com>
Date:       2002-11-05 20:53:55
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At 11:13 AM 11/5/02 -0800, Jeremy wrote:
>Thus spake Philippe FREMY:
>
> > Are you sure ? These "most people" don't include at least all the 
> people who
> > have talked to us (as the kvim development team). Since we have started 
> kvim
> > and the vim KDE component, we have had a lot of feedback for 
> enthusiastic vi
> > and KDE users. I can tell you that _all_ of these people would like to have
> > a good vim component. Vim as the application doesn't matter much to them.
> > KDE is getting more and more popular and we will have more and more people
> > like this.
>
>I think an interesting question is what is more popular, VIM or KDE?  I
>know at least in my circle collegues, most of them can give a crap about
>how pretty their desktop looks, but they ALL use vim.  I don't mean to
>over simplify what KDE is, but there is still a significant group that
>prefers not having the integration that you speak of.  So, to your point
>that there are people that want this integration, thare are also plenty of
>people that do not want it.
>
>Jeremy

I think that this is a very important point.  Vim is such a great 
programming achievement, that it stands in a *very* rarefied class!  Any 
talk of fundamental redesign should not be thrown out lightly.

Bruce.

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