On Tuesday 22 May 2007 02:30, Claus Reinke wrote:
Vim is eliminated before it reaches the gate because it's a modal editor. Even with GVim in place, it still has that modal stench to it that leaps up and bites at awkward moments.
that's a bit more specific, at least. but as far as i recall, modes were considered bad for specific reasons, such as 'users can't see where they are, modewise', 'functionality becomes unavailable in a mode', 'users have no way to get out of a mode', etc. and most of these specific issues have actually been addressed in vim.
Since no-one else has done so, i thought i should mention Cream: http://cream.sourceforge.net/featurelist.html Cream is a customisation of Vim/gVim, providing a more contemporary GUI style and single-mode editing (although modal editing is available if one wants it) - with all the power of Vim under the hood. :-) Alexis.