On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Jeff Wheeler
As one of the Yi developers, I'd love to hear some more specific feedback on this. Do you remember any specific Vim features that were missing?
My main gripe with the vi emulation in Yi was in vty mode[1] and how it was unable to tell that 'esc' wasn't always 'meta-'. e.g., If I leave insert mode with esc and hit j to go down a line too quickly it interpreted it as meta-j. Quite annoying. This was a little while ago though. Also, I remember the cursor would go beyond the last character in a line in command mode, which is very un-vi-ish. At the time I remember thinking I should try and fix these things myself... but.. umm... [1] vty Yi is the only one I would use--coding must always live inside a screen session :) I really dislike wrapping a GUI around vi(m). I don't want toolbars, tabs, scrollbars nor menus. I don't even want a titlebar. Absolute full screen terminal running screen is perfect. :)