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Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:27:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To:	Nicholas Wourms <nwourms AT netscape DOT net>
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support?
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Nicholas Wourms wrote:

> 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

Yeah, I thought about it, shuddered, and added the "visual" above...
	Igor
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