Re: VIM config in PEAR files?

On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:15:56AM +0100, Peter Bowyer wrote : > At 11:11 PM 4/14/02 +0200, Markus Fischer wrote: > >> A better question might be "Why vim?". > > > > Because *I* use vim and intend to place the proper definition > > into it so *everyone* using vim will automatically have the > > right mode (no tabs, spaces) when editing the files and the > > chance of commited something with fu@#^ up whitespaces is > > low. > > OK. *I* use Editor XYZ which has some funny behaviours. To make it work > properly I'll have to add some code to each file, which is fine so > *everyone* using this editor with its funny behaviours will get it to work. > > My friend used Editor ABC which acts really strangely in some files, and > needs a special 5 line comment added to every single file. This needs to > be added so that *everyone* using ABC will see the files correctly. > > Another friend uses... > > > See how it can go on? We face the thruth. Which is, as I just descibed in another mail, only two editors out there have a strong enough user base which use this feature. This is the real life, not your hypthetical thesis (which I can understand; someone had to come up with this). > I have never used vim, but if it's properly written then surely there's > some way of configuring it internally to set the mode? No. And if you think twice about it, you will also expirience *why*, I'm sure ;-) -- Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. GnuPG Key: http://guru.josefine.at/~mfischer/C2272BD0.asc "Mind if I MFH ?" "What QA did you do on it?" "the usual?" "ah... none :)"