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diff --git a/runtime/doc/quotes.txt b/runtime/doc/quotes.txt index 3c5c3a3e6..9cc94ff76 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/quotes.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/quotes.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -*quotes.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 May 06 +*quotes.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Apr 04 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Coming with a very GUI mindset from Windows, I always thought of people using Vi as some kind of outer space alien in human clothes. Once I tried I really got addicted by its power and now I found myself typing Vim keypresses in the oddest places! That's why I would like to see Vim embedded in every -application which deals with text editing. (José Fonseca) +application which deals with text editing. (José Fonseca) I was a 12-year emacs user who switched to Vim about a year ago after finally giving up on the multiple incompatible versions, flaky contributed packages, @@ -32,17 +32,17 @@ the Vi editor") Out of all the open software i've ever seen and used, and i've seen a lot, Vim is the best, most useful and highest quality to work with, second only to the -linux kernel itself. (Peter Jay Salzman) +linux kernel itself. (Peter Jay Salzman) It's well worth noting that the _entirety_ of SourceForge was written using -Vim and its nifty PHP syntax highlighting. I think the entire SF.net tech +Vim and its nifty PHP syntax highlighting. I think the entire SF.net tech staff uses Vim and we're all excited to have you aboard! (Tim Perdue) Vim is one of a select bunch of tools for which I have no substitute. It is a brilliant piece of work! (Biju Chacko) A previous girlfriend of mine switched to emacs. Needless to say, the -relationship went nowhere. (Geoffrey Mann) +relationship went nowhere. (Geoffrey Mann) I rarely think about Vim, in the same way that I guess a fish rarely thinks about water. It's the environment in which everything else happens. I'm a @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ is the only thing that's consistent across all my systems, and it's just about the only thing that doesn't break from time to time. When a new system comes in the door without Vim, I install it right away. Great to have a tool that's the same everywhere, that's completely reliable, so I can ignore it and think -about other things. (Pete Schaeffer) +about other things. (Pete Schaeffer) Having recently succeeded in running Vim via telnet through a Nokia Communicator, I can now report that it works nicely on a Palm Pilot too. @@ -63,10 +63,10 @@ versions of 'emacs' in the late 1970's and was relieved by finding 'vi' in the first UNIX I came across in 1983). In my opinion, it's about time 'VIM' replace 'emacs' as the standard for top editors. (Bo Thide', Sweden) -I love and use VIM heavily too. (Larry Wall) +I love and use VIM heavily too. (Larry Wall) Vi is like a Ferrari, if you're a beginner, it handles like a bitch, but once -you get the hang of it, its small, powerful and FAST! (Unknown) +you get the hang of it, it's small, powerful and FAST! (Unknown) VIM is like a new model Ferrari, and sounds like one too - "VIIIIIIMMM!" (Stephen Riehm, Germany) @@ -77,12 +77,12 @@ quickly get used to and appreciate the advantages of this editor. (Garry Glendown, conclusion of an article on VIM in iX magazine 9/1998) I've recently acquired the O'Reilly book on VI (it also discusses VIM -in-depth), and I'm amazed at just how powerful this application is. (Jeffrey +in-depth), and I'm amazed at just how powerful this application is. (Jeffrey Rankin) This guide was written using the Windows 9.x distribution of GVIM, which is quite possibly the greatest thing to come along since God created the naked -girl. (Michael DiBernardo) +girl. (Michael DiBernardo) Boy, I thought I knew almost everything about VIM, but every time I browse the online documentation, I hit upon a minor but cool aspect of a VIM feature that @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ of those "Perfect Programmer's Editor" threads and was delighted to discover that VIM already supports it. (Brendan Macmillan, Australia) I just discovered VIM (5.0) and I'm telling everyone I know about it! -I tell them VIM stands for VI for the new (M)illenium. Thanks so much! +I tell them VIM stands for VI for the new (M)illenium. Thanks so much! (Matt F. Valentine) I think from now on "vi" should be called "Vim Imitation", not the other way @@ -121,12 +121,12 @@ Whenever I move to a new computing platform, the first thing I do is to port VIM. Lately, I am simply stunned by its ease of compilation using the configure facility. (A.M. Sabuncu, Turkey) -The options are really excellent and very powerful. (Anish Maharaj) +The options are really excellent and very powerful. (Anish Maharaj) The Spring user-interface designs are in, and word from the boutiques is that 80x24 text-only mode is back with a *vengeance! Vi editor clone VIM burst onto March desk-tops with a dazzling show of pastel syntax highlights for its 5.0 -look. Strident and customizable, VIM raises eyebrows with its interpretation +look. Strident and customizable, VIM raises eyebrows with its interpretation of the classic Vi single-key macro collection. http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?back=archive98/now0327.txt&line=179#l @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ I just wanted to take this opportunity to let you know that VIM 5 ROCKS! Syntax highlighting: how did I survive without it?! Thank you for creating mankind's best editor! (Mun Johl, USA) -Thanks again for VIM. I use it every day on Linux. (Eric Foster-Johnson, +Thanks again for VIM. I use it every day on Linux. (Eric Foster-Johnson, author of the book "UNIX Programming Tools") The BEST EDITOR EVER (Stuart Woolford) @@ -172,17 +172,17 @@ I am really happy with such a wonderful software package. Much better than almost any expensive, off the shelf program. (Jeff Walker) Whenever I reread the VIM documentation I'm overcome with excitement at the -power of the editor. (William Edward Webber, Australia) +power of the editor. (William Edward Webber, Australia) Hurrah for VIM!! It is "at your fingertips" like vi, and has the extensions that vi sorely needs: highlighting for executing commands on blocks, an easily -navigable and digestible help screen, and more. (Paul Pax) +navigable and digestible help screen, and more. (Paul Pax) The reason WHY I don't have this amazingly useful macro any more, is that I now use VIM - and this is built in!! (Stephen Riehm, Germany) -I am a user of VIM and I love it. I use it to do all my programming, C, -C++, HTML what ever. (Tim Allwine) +I am a user of VIM and I love it. I use it to do all my programming, C, +C++, HTML what ever. (Tim Allwine) I discovered VIM after years of struggling with the original vi, and I just can't live without it any more. (Emmanuel Mogenet, USA) @@ -194,11 +194,11 @@ better than most commercial software! (Leiming Qian) This version of VIM will just blow people apart when they discover just how fantastic it is! (Tony Nugent, Australia) -I took your advice & finally got VIM & I'm really impressed. Instant convert. +I took your advice & finally got VIM & I'm really impressed. Instant convert. (Patrick Killelea, USA) VIM is by far my favorite piece of shareware and I have been particularly -pleased with version 3.0. This is really a solid piece of work. (Robert +pleased with version 3.0. This is really a solid piece of work. (Robert Colon, USA) VIM is a joy to use, it is so well thought and practical that I wonder why @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ VIM is the greatest editor since the stone chisel. (Jose Unpingco, USA) I would like to say that with VIM I am finally making the 'emacs to vi' transition - as an Editor it is so much better in many ways: keyboard layout, -memory usage, text alteration to name 3. (Mark Adam) +memory usage, text alteration to name 3. (Mark Adam) In fact, now if I want to know what a particular setting does in vi, I fire up VIM and check out it's help! (Nikhil Patel, USA) @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ before I encountered this program. (Steinar Knutsen, Norway) I use VIM since version 3.0. Since that time, it is the ONLY editor I use, with Solaris, Linux and OS/2 Warp. I suggest all my friends to use VIM, they try, and they continue using it. VIM is really the best software I have ever -downloaded from the Internet, and the best editor I know of. (Marco +downloaded from the Internet, and the best editor I know of. (Marco Eccettuato, Italy) |