Re: Using a custom _vimrc with Cream
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From: William M. <wi...@kn...> - 2003-04-03 11:26:41
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Hi Steve, Thanks for your time and suggestions. They sound like a very good idea. In fact, I'm coming around to the point where I'd prefer to customize my key mappings entirely as I find that for certain functions I keep hitting the default Vim keys and am getting the Cream behaviors. Having spent the time to learn the vi way, I'm hesitant to learn a new system which will displace standard vi behaviors (and thus my ability to use vi effectively on non-Cream systems). FWIW, I'm also coming from the Mac/Win world. I used BBEdit when on a Mac; on the PC, I used Programmer's File Editor (PFE) for years until I came across syntax highlighting in UltraEdit. I used it up to version 6 at which point I wanted a cross-platform editor and tried Emacs for a year then tried Vim. I got hooked with Vim. So, the capabilities you've built into Cream remind me of the features and ease of a decent Windows/Mac editor. However, over the past couple of years of using Vim, I've become both habituated and fond of the power of modal editing. So, I've got a foot in both worlds and am trying, like you, to make them both work. I like the idea of placing my keymappings in an add-on. If any other Vimmers on this list has started mapping keys to Cream functions, I'd like to take a look at their file. It'd be nice to come up with a file that can be included into the distribution for those of us who are stuck on the old ways. Thanks, William -- Knowmad Services Inc. http://www.knowmad.com |