[TriLUG] God, how I hate thee, VIM

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 21 October 2004 01:38 pm, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
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> More specifically, if you're editing a file that vim identifies as a
> script, it will try to do some helpful things for you.  

Interestingly, it's Vim's handling of comments that enabled the VimOutliner 
project to enable body text as a feature. We simply defined a leading colon 
as a comment.

SteveT


> There's probably 
> a more elegant way, but if you just want a quick and dirty way to turn
> off all code interpretation, type
>
> :set paste

For the ultimate in elegant ways, try downloading VimOutliner 
(http://www.vimoutliner.org), and look at the various vim scripts. I 
understand only about 1/3 of it, but what I do understand is a monument to 
what you can do with Vim.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Founder and acting president: GoLUG
http://www.golug.org