cm0002@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 4 days agoVim is built differentlemmy.mlimagemessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1562arrow-down115cross-posted to: programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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minus-squaredohpaz42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-23 days ago:set nocompat Why VIM decided to make itself run just like VI (by default) is beyond me. Isn’t the long name “VI Improved”?
minus-squarenous@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·3 days agoVims defaults are quite crap overall. It is why everyone needs 100s of lines of configs and many plugins to turn it into something decent. Well worth the setup but it could go a long way to making things nicer to use out the box.
:set nocompatWhy VIM decided to make itself run just like VI (by default) is beyond me. Isn’t the long name “VI Improved”?
Vims defaults are quite crap overall. It is why everyone needs 100s of lines of configs and many plugins to turn it into something decent. Well worth the setup but it could go a long way to making things nicer to use out the box.