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 <div>On 7/10/06, marc <<a href="mailto:gmane@auxbuss.com">gmane@auxbuss.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> User Iam said... > > On 7/9/06, Ouattara Aziz <<a href="mailto:wattazoum@gmail.com">wattazoum@gmail.com</a>> 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 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>