VIM Quotes

The difference between the Vim mug and the
Vim tub is that the tub has the text inside. :-)

Horms and I discussed this, and we came up with two categories of people.
People who use vim, and people who don't realize that they could be using vim.

My ears hear 'modeless is better', but my heart pounds 'Vim rules'

"VIM software : Very Important & Marvelous software."

I am a contract programmer and one of the first things
I always do on a new job is to get VIM on my machine.

Subject: How did I work without it
Recently downloaded vim 5.3.
I have been using vi for many years.
Only now have I realised what I've been missing.
Thanks for making my job more interesting and easier.

I think I am going to cry. This is what I have been looking for for quite
some time. I was using an old version of a vi editor for DOS offered by MKS.
It was awfull but more usefull than any Windows alternative.
Now I have VIM.  Wow what a great find.

On a serious note, I just got Visual C++ 6.0 and installed it. I intend to
use it to compile Vim for Python in the Windows Environment. I would be
happy to set up a site on that issue. Vim for windows is a delight to work
in. It is really the best of both the command-line world and the GUI world.

Last night I finally unzipped vim 5.3, and dammit I'm a convert. ..
gvim is the One True Way for text editing on a Windows box,
and that's all there is to it. All hail! All hail!

Vim is worth millions and costs nothing. It's the best editor the world has
ever seen. Using the trio Vim/Perl/LaTeX I can dispose of most other software.

I've been hearing so many great things about VIM from friends all year,
and finally now I'm trying it out, and I wish I'd taken their advice sooner!
As a programmer working in both Unix and Windows, it's great to finally
find a fantastic editor for both.  Thanks for all your hard work!

I was a Win98 junkie and addicted to Outlook Express. SLRN has converted me.
After I found a key refrence to VIM and figgered out how to hit ^C,
then :write and :quit, it was mucho superio to OE. God, I love BeOS. Plus,
now I can set my computer up as a telnet server, connect from school
and read my newsgroups.  Awesome. :)

page: http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/mvcorks/vim/
link: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/zapped.html
text: "What can I say? Vi is Zen."

	vim: ebullient vitality and energy
	     ebullient:  boiling, agitated

3 definitions found:
vim \Vim\, n. [L., accusative of vis strength.]
	Power; force; energy; spirit; activity; vigor.  [Colloq.]
	Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
vim n	1: a healthy capacity for vigorous activity;
	"jogging works off my excess energy";
         "he seemed full of vim and vigor" [syn: energy, vitality]
	2: an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing);
	"his writing conveys great energy" [syn: energy, vigor, vigour] 
	Source: WordNet . 1.6
vim	1. Vendor Independent Messaging.
	2. vi Improved (previously vi iMitation),
	An improved version of vi, available for many platforms.
	VIM allows multiscreen editing, more flexible insert/command mode
	handling, better C indentation and much more.
	FAQ (http://www.grafnetix.com/~laurent/vim/faq.html).  (1997-10-04)
	Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

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Created:     Wed Mar 03 12:00:00 CET 1999