Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support?

[Igor Pechtchanski]

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
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