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From:	Nicholas Wourms <nwourms AT netscape DOT net>
Subject:	Re: Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support?
Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:09:26 -0400
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2003, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> 
> 
>>>(*) Personally, I think perl support in vim would be nice, but I'm
>>>absolutely against adding a perl dependence to the vim package.  There's
>>>no reason to drag in yet another 6.5M of stuff if all I want is an editor.
>>>If that were desirable, I'd just install emacs.
>>
>>if 'all i want is an editor' then why get vim at all.
>>;)
>>
>>Gareth - no bias here, move along, nothing to see.
> 
> 
> Because the "cat/sed" combination is much harder to use :)
> 
> On second thought, make that a "visual editor"...
> 	Igor

For the extremely masochistic, there's always just plain old `ed`.

Cheers,
Nicholas



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