Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 10:01:19 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: David Scheidt <rufus@brain.mics.net>, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: code density vs readability Message-ID: <20011003100119.B426@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <p05100324b7dfe4cb7f37@[194.78.144.27]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:42:44PM %2B0200 References: <20011002213051.A28111@lpt.ens.fr> <Pine.BSI.4.20.0110021606080.7990-100000@brain.mics.net> <20011002222232.B28111@lpt.ens.fr> <p05100324b7dfe4cb7f37@[194.78.144.27]>
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Brad Knowles said on Oct 2, 2001 at 23:42:44:
> At 10:22 PM +0200 10/2/01, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
>
> >> I'm not convinced this needs to be part of the editor. Checkout par
> >> (ports/textproc/par), I think it does everything vim does.
> >
> > Well, I want it to be part of the editor. I use the editor more for
> > normal text than for programming.
>
> You use "gqap". I use "{!}par". What's the difference?
Perhaps only that I wouldn't have known about par if someone hadn't
told me on this list; whereas I learned about gqap from vim's help
system. To this day I know lots of people who don't know about
paragraph-formatting even under vim (not that they'd use it if they
knew) and don't mind ragged right margins, overflowing lines etc. I
didn't intend to start a flamewar, and yes, nvi's license definitely
is friendlier to BSD.
As for how powerful vim's para features are compared to par, I have no
idea. It works for me; perhaps some time if I find it too limiting,
I'll look into par...
R
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