1*quotes.txt* For Vim version 7.3. Last change: 2006 Apr 24 2 3 4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar 5 6 7 *quotes* 8Here are some nice quotes about Vim that I collected from news and mail. 9 10 11vim (vim) noun - Ebullient vitality and energy. [Latin, accusative of vis, 12strength] (Dictionary) 13 14Vim is so much better than vi that a great many of my old vi :map's became 15immediately obsolete! (Tony Nugent, Australia) 16 17Coming with a very GUI mindset from Windows, I always thought of people using 18Vi as some kind of outer space alien in human clothes. Once I tried I really 19got addicted by its power and now I found myself typing Vim keypresses in the 20oddest places! That's why I would like to see Vim embedded in every 21application which deals with text editing. (Jos� Fonseca) 22 23I was a 12-year emacs user who switched to Vim about a year ago after finally 24giving up on the multiple incompatible versions, flaky contributed packages, 25disorganized keystrokes, etc. And it was one of the best moves I ever made. 26(Joel Burton) 27 28Although all of the programs were used during the preparation of the new and 29revised material, most of the editing was done with Vim versions 4.5 and 5.0 30under GNU-Linux (Redhat 4.2). (Arnold Robbins, Israel, author of "Learning 31the Vi editor") 32 33Out of all the open software i've ever seen and used, and i've seen a lot, Vim 34is the best, most useful and highest quality to work with, second only to the 35linux kernel itself. (Peter Jay Salzman) 36 37It's well worth noting that the _entirety_ of SourceForge was written using 38Vim and its nifty PHP syntax highlighting. I think the entire SF.net tech 39staff uses Vim and we're all excited to have you aboard! (Tim Perdue) 40 41Vim is one of a select bunch of tools for which I have no substitute. It is 42a brilliant piece of work! (Biju Chacko) 43 44A previous girlfriend of mine switched to emacs. Needless to say, the 45relationship went nowhere. (Geoffrey Mann) 46 47I rarely think about Vim, in the same way that I guess a fish rarely thinks 48about water. It's the environment in which everything else happens. I'm a 49fairly busy system administrator working on a lot of different platforms. Vim 50is the only thing that's consistent across all my systems, and it's just about 51the only thing that doesn't break from time to time. When a new system comes 52in the door without Vim, I install it right away. Great to have a tool that's 53the same everywhere, that's completely reliable, so I can ignore it and think 54about other things. (Pete Schaeffer) 55 56Having recently succeeded in running Vim via telnet through a Nokia 57Communicator, I can now report that it works nicely on a Palm Pilot too. 58(Allan Kelly, Scotland) 59 60You've done a tremendous job with 'VIM', Bram! The more I use it, the more 61impressed I get (I am an old 'vi' die hard who once started out with early 62versions of 'emacs' in the late 1970's and was relieved by finding 'vi' in the 63first UNIX I came across in 1983). In my opinion, it's about time 'VIM' 64replace 'emacs' as the standard for top editors. (Bo Thide', Sweden) 65 66I love and use VIM heavily too. (Larry Wall) 67 68Vi is like a Ferrari, if you're a beginner, it handles like a bitch, but once 69you get the hang of it, it's small, powerful and FAST! (Unknown) 70VIM is like a new model Ferrari, and sounds like one too - "VIIIIIIMMM!" 71(Stephen Riehm, Germany) 72 73Schon bei Nutzung eines Bruchteils der VIM-Funktionen wird der Benutzer recht 74schnell die Vorzuege dieses Editors kennen- und schaetzenlernen. 75Translated: Even when only using a fraction of VIM-functions, the user will 76quickly get used to and appreciate the advantages of this editor. (Garry 77Glendown, conclusion of an article on VIM in iX magazine 9/1998) 78 79I've recently acquired the O'Reilly book on VI (it also discusses VIM 80in-depth), and I'm amazed at just how powerful this application is. (Jeffrey 81Rankin) 82 83This guide was written using the Windows 9.x distribution of GVIM, which is 84quite possibly the greatest thing to come along since God created the naked 85girl. (Michael DiBernardo) 86 87Boy, I thought I knew almost everything about VIM, but every time I browse the 88online documentation, I hit upon a minor but cool aspect of a VIM feature that 89I didn't know before! I must say the documentation is one the finest I've 90ever seen in a product -- even better than most commercial products. 91(Gautam Mudunuri) 92 93VIM 4.5 is really a fantastic editor. It has sooooo many features and more 94importantly, the defaults are so well thought out that you really don't have 95to change anything!! Words cannot express my amazement and gratitude to the 96creators of VIM. Keep it up. (Vikas, USA) 97 98I wonder how long it will be before people will refer to other Vi editors as 99VIM clones? (Darren Hiebert) 100 101I read about [auto-positioning-in-file-based-on-the-errors-from-make] in one 102of those "Perfect Programmer's Editor" threads and was delighted to discover 103that VIM already supports it. (Brendan Macmillan, Australia) 104 105I just discovered VIM (5.0) and I'm telling everyone I know about it! 106I tell them VIM stands for VI for the new (M)illenium. Thanks so much! 107(Matt F. Valentine) 108 109I think from now on "vi" should be called "Vim Imitation", not the other way 110around. (Rungun Ramanathan) 111 112The Law of VIM: 113For each member b of the possible behaviour space B of program P, there exists 114a finite time t before which at least one user u in the total user space U of 115program P will request b becomes a member of the allowed behaviour space B' 116(B' <= B). 117In other words: Sooner or later everyone wants everything as an option. 118(Negri) 119 120Whenever I move to a new computing platform, the first thing I do is to port 121VIM. Lately, I am simply stunned by its ease of compilation using the 122configure facility. (A.M. Sabuncu, Turkey) 123 124The options are really excellent and very powerful. (Anish Maharaj) 125 126The Spring user-interface designs are in, and word from the boutiques is that 12780x24 text-only mode is back with a *vengeance! Vi editor clone VIM burst onto 128March desk-tops with a dazzling show of pastel syntax highlights for its 5.0 129look. Strident and customizable, VIM raises eyebrows with its interpretation 130of the classic Vi single-key macro collection. 131http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?back=archive98/now0327.txt&line=179#l 132 133I just wanted to take this opportunity to let you know that VIM 5 ROCKS! 134Syntax highlighting: how did I survive without it?! Thank you for creating 135mankind's best editor! (Mun Johl, USA) 136 137Thanks again for VIM. I use it every day on Linux. (Eric Foster-Johnson, 138author of the book "UNIX Programming Tools") 139 140The BEST EDITOR EVER (Stuart Woolford) 141 142I have used most of VIM's fancy features at least once, many frequently, and I 143can honestly say that I couldn't live with anything less anymore. My 144productivity has easily doubled compared to what it was when I used vi. 145(Sitaram Chamarty) 146 147I luv VIM. It is incredible. I'm naming my first-born Vimberly. (Jose 148Unpingco, USA) 149 150Hint: "VIM" is "vi improved" - much better! (Sven Guckes, Germany) 151 152I use VIM every day. I spend more time in VIM than in any other program... 153It's the best vi clone there is. I think it's great. (Craig Sanders, 154Australia) 155 156I strongly advise using VIM--its infinite undo/redo saved me much grief. 157(Terry Brown) 158 159Thanks very much for writing what in my opinion is the finest text editor on 160the planet. If I were to get another cat, I would name it "Vim". 161(Bob Sheehan, USA) 162 163I typed :set all and the screen FILLED up with options. A whole screen of 164things to be set and unset. I saw some of my old friends like wrapmargin, 165modelines and showmode, but the screen was FILLED with new friends! I love 166them all! I love VIM! I'm so happy that I've found this editor! I feel 167like how I once felt when I started using vi after a couple of years of using 168ed. I never thought I'd forsake my beloved ed, but vi ... oh god, vi was 169great. And now, VIM. (Peter Jay Salzman, USA) 170 171I am really happy with such a wonderful software package. Much better than 172almost any expensive, off the shelf program. (Jeff Walker) 173 174Whenever I reread the VIM documentation I'm overcome with excitement at the 175power of the editor. (William Edward Webber, Australia) 176 177Hurrah for VIM!! It is "at your fingertips" like vi, and has the extensions 178that vi sorely needs: highlighting for executing commands on blocks, an easily 179navigable and digestible help screen, and more. (Paul Pax) 180 181The reason WHY I don't have this amazingly useful macro any more, is that I 182now use VIM - and this is built in!! (Stephen Riehm, Germany) 183 184I am a user of VIM and I love it. I use it to do all my programming, C, 185C++, HTML what ever. (Tim Allwine) 186 187I discovered VIM after years of struggling with the original vi, and I just 188can't live without it any more. (Emmanuel Mogenet, USA) 189 190Emacs has not a bit of chance to survive so long as VIM is around. Besides, 191it also has the most detailed software documentation I have ever seen---much 192better than most commercial software! (Leiming Qian) 193 194This version of VIM will just blow people apart when they discover just how 195fantastic it is! (Tony Nugent, Australia) 196 197I took your advice & finally got VIM & I'm really impressed. Instant convert. 198(Patrick Killelea, USA) 199 200VIM is by far my favorite piece of shareware and I have been particularly 201pleased with version 3.0. This is really a solid piece of work. (Robert 202Colon, USA) 203 204VIM is a joy to use, it is so well thought and practical that I wonder why 205anybody would use visual development tools. VIM is powerful and elegant, it 206looks deceptively simple but is almost as complex as a 747 (especially when I 207look at my growing .vimrc), keep up that wonderful job, VIM is a centerpiece 208of the free software world. (Louis-David Mitterand, USA) 209 210I cannot believe how great it is to use VIM. I think the guys at work are 211getting tired of hearing me bragging about it. Others eyes are lighting up. 212(Rick Croote) 213 214Emacs takes way too much time to start up and run, it is too big and bulky for 215effective use and the interface is more confusing than it is of any help. VIM 216however is short, it is fast, it is powerful, it has a good interface and it 217is all purpose. (Paal Ditlefsen Ekran) 218 219From the first time I got VIM3.0, I was very enthusiastic. It has almost no 220problems. The swapfile handling and the backup possibilities are robust, also 221the protection against editing one file twice. It is very compatible to the 222real VI (and that is a MUST, because my brain is trained over years in using 223it). (Gert van Antwerpen, Holland) 224 225Visual mode in VIM is a very powerful thing! (Tony Nugent, Australia) 226 227I have to say that VIM is =THE= single greatest piece of source code to ever 228come across the net (Jim Battle, USA). 229 230In fact, if you do want to get a new vi I'd suggest VIM-3.0. This is, by 231far, the best version of vi I've ever seen (Albert W. Schueller). 232 233I should mention that VIM is a very good editor and can compete with anything 234(Ilya Beloozerov). 235 236To tell the truth sometimes I used elvis, vile, xvi, calvin, etc. And this is 237the reason that I can state that VIM is the best! (Ferenc Deak, Hungary) 238 239VIM is by far the best editor that I have used in a long time, and I have 240looked at just about every thing that is available for every platform that I 241use. VIM is the best on all of them. (Guy L. Oliver) 242 243VIM is the greatest editor since the stone chisel. (Jose Unpingco, USA) 244 245I would like to say that with VIM I am finally making the 'emacs to vi' 246transition - as an Editor it is so much better in many ways: keyboard layout, 247memory usage, text alteration to name 3. (Mark Adam) 248 249In fact, now if I want to know what a particular setting does in vi, I fire up 250VIM and check out its help! (Nikhil Patel, USA) 251 252As a vi user, VIM has made working with text a far more pleasant task than 253before I encountered this program. (Steinar Knutsen, Norway) 254 255I use VIM since version 3.0. Since that time, it is the ONLY editor I use, 256with Solaris, Linux and OS/2 Warp. I suggest all my friends to use VIM, they 257try, and they continue using it. VIM is really the best software I have ever 258downloaded from the Internet, and the best editor I know of. (Marco 259Eccettuato, Italy) 260 261 262In summary: 263 __ ___ _ _ _ ___ _____ 264 \ \ / (_)_ __ ___ (_)___ | | | |/ _ \_ _| 265 \ \ / /| | '_ ` _ \ | / __| | |_| | | | || | 266 \ V / | | | | | | | | \__ \ | _ | |_| || | 267 \_/ |_|_| |_| |_| |_|___/ |_| |_|\___/ |_| 268 ____ _____ _ _ _____ _____ _ _ 269 / ___|_ _| | | | ___| ___| | | 270 \___ \ | | | | | | |_ | |_ | | | 271 ___) || | | |_| | _| | _| |_|_| 272 |____/ |_| \___/|_| |_| (_|_) (Tony Nugent, Australia) 273 274 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: 275