Michael Hennebry wrote: > There is no way but the one true way and developers are its prophets. > It should have been easy for me to get rid of > vim's awful colors and its automatic indentation. > That said, too much automation can be a security hazard. Hang on: you're making some good points about user-friendliness, but you're seriously using *vim* as an example? Don't get me wrong: it's a great editor, and I'm typing this into it now. But it's *not* aimed at the average user: it's aimed at people who know how vi works or want to learn. That really does include knowing a bit about Unix. In other words, I *do* think it's reasonable for vim's developers to expect users to know that per-user configuration for a program foo might just be held in ~/.foorc . And are syntax off and set noai *so* difficult to find out about? set [no]ai is there in plain and standard vi, for goodness' sake! James. -- E-mail address: james | Five miles as the hippopotamus bounces... @westexe.demon.co.uk |
