Vim7 on Ubuntu/Kubuntu

[User Iam]

HI

Someone correct me if I am wrong..

But,,,,

I think VIM is one of those things you could download as a deb and just
install..

It should break the Ubuntu configuration/mindset!!!

Thoughts...

I may just do it myself on my dapper machine..

HTH

User Iam

On 7/10/06, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
>
> User Iam said...
> >
> > On 7/9/06, Ouattara Aziz <wattazoum at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > What does version 7 have that you can't live without??
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > User Iam
> > > >
> > >
> > > User Iam, you can get people frustrated with those kind of mail. Just
> > > consider that there is a reason for people take their time posting in
> > > here. "... you can't live without??" : that part of your sentence can
> be
> > > misjudged.
> >
> > What new feature in version 7 are you interested in?
>
> Tabs are a good starting point. In particular, wedded to --remote-tab-
> silent, they make it easy to keep to a single vim instance. In addition,
> when used in combination with single-click opening of files through,
> say, Krusader (or Opus 8 on XP) life is very sweet. Yup, always
> workarounds, but for folk used to XP and migrating to Linux this is a
> big deal.
>
> Spell-checking is essential within an editor for anyone producing docs
> (and not the one-word-at-a-time spell-checking of the 80s). This feature
> alone means that I, and others, can revert to a single editor on
> multiple platforms. That is a huge deal, especially when you factor in
> heavy use of LaTeX for docs, books and publishing.
>
> Matching parens - useful for coding, but also essential for LaTeX.
>
> Internal grep - for use on XP, but darn useful on Linux too.
>
> Internal sort
>
> Improved Unicode support
>
> Omni completion - say no more.
>
> Blockwise mouse selection - brilliant when dealing with text dumps from
> spreadsheets and other munged data.
>
> And :diffo(ff)
>
> These things are not necessarily of interest on the geek side of things,
> but for non-geek use - I do both and a bit of translation between the
> two - they are big advances in vim's usefulness.
>
> And we are trying to encourage Windows' folk - who are mostly non-geek -
> onto Linux are we not?
>
> I'm genuinely surprised that vim7 hasn't been fast-tracked into Ubuntu.
>
> --
> Best,
> Marc
>
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