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Re: UTP Revisited: scoping the project
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Marc Chantreux |
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Re: UTP Revisited: scoping the project |
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Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:57:30 +0200 |
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hello,
> - Update Chapter 3 to cover Vim (including gvim)
please don't!
what's nice about reading UTP is to discover the elegance and simplicity
of it all but as vi user, i was frustrated to see that some things that
are available in implentations like nvi and the openbsd default vi are
not covered in the book. it could be updated this way.
i'm a vibrant fan of vim but i have to admit that even to me, vim don't
belong to this world of simplicity at all! plus:
* both vim and neovim have vibrant ecosystems to promote their usages
* there are so many ways to vim it
so to me having a "vim chapter" into UTP would lead to 2 situations:
* having a book into the book.
* having a very poor coverage of what vim can do for you while you're
editing roff sources.
both of those situations are sad to me. the way i'll update it would be
to
* mention vim at the top of the chapter and explain we need an extra
book (eventualy just make a giant list of all the things you can
read about from :help).
* improve the chapter to take advantage of modern implementations of
vi in modern unix.
regards,
marc
- UTP Revisited: scoping the project, Larry Kollar, 2020/10/20
- Re: UTP Revisited: scoping the project, Ingo Schwarze, 2020/10/20
- Re: UTP Revisited: scoping the project, Larry McVoy, 2020/10/20
- Re: UTP Revisited: scoping the project, Larry Kollar, 2020/10/20
- Re: UTP Revisited: scoping the project, Marc Chantreux, 2020/10/20