Re: UTP Revisited: scoping the project

[Johann Höchtl]

On 20.10.20 16:05, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 09:33:02AM -0400, Larry Kollar wrote:
> > Marc Chantreux <eiro@phear.org> wrote:
> > > hello,
> > >
> > > > -  Update Chapter 3 to cover Vim (including gvim)
> > > please don't!
> > >
> > > what's nice about reading UTP is to discover the elegance and simplicity
> > > of it all ???
> > >
> > > i'm a vibrant fan of vim but i have to admit that even to me, vim don't
> > > belong to this world of simplicity at all! plus:
> > >
> > > * both vim and neovim have vibrant ecosystems to promote their usages
> > > * there are so many ways to vim it
> > >
> > > ??? the way i'll update it would be to
> > >
> > > * mention vim at the top of the chapter and explain we need an extra
> > >   book (eventualy just make a giant list of all the things you can
> > >   read about from :help).
> > > * improve the chapter to take advantage of modern implementations of
> > >   vi in modern unix.
> > Your last point was exactly where I was going with this. Having your editor
> > (gvim in this case) in one window, and your shell in another, makes life so
> > much easier, for example. Cherry-pick one or two things like that, then
> > point out that we???re only scratching the surface of what modern versions
> > can do. Point them to vim.org for more info.
> The one thing I'd support adding for vim is :split as that is a pretty
> big improvement over traditional vi.
After that many years it might pleasantly surprise you that even modern 
Vim still retains the notion of its ancestry by supporting section 
movements and accounting for the corresponding nroff directives/macros:


https://vimhelp.org/options.txt.html#%27sections%27


Best, Johann