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I will stop distributing Vim builds. After all, there are “official” nightly builds for Windows, built with an inefficient toolset, but “good enough” for most people. (Mine are entirely ignored on the Vim website. I can imagine that they just don’t care about people like me. That’s the only reasonable explanation.)
Can you explain what you mean here, emphasis mine for what I’m referring to?
You’re not mirroring, so why would they link your build?
If you choose to read it entirely literally, they're not wrong. It's pretty reasonable that they wouldn't link to every fork(?) of Vim.
The only reasonable explanation for VIM not linking to a random guys build of VIM using his own toolchain that they haven’t vetted is “because they don’t care about people like him”?
Thats pretty reasonable?
Idk, language has meaning and I don’t read that as anything but a thinly veiled complaint tbh.
Oh, it obviously is a dig. I'm being a little silly. If we assume "people like him" are random maintainers of random builds of things, and we assume only Official Vim Development reasons, the team would have to reason to care about this project. If they meant anything more, they should have said it 🙃
My way too serious glasses were a little fogged, apologies
EDIT: Never mind, I got it now.
This is a email to the mailing list by OP.
They aren’t the VIM dev, they aren’t official, the question here is “who cares if you stop building your own VIM”?
My bad, I misunderstood!
No one even uses Vim anymore, you should just switch to Wordpad. It’s far superior cause you can type in bold and italics.
😎
I use Emacs.
While I can use Emacs and Vim (adequately enough) I really feel in love with Joe back when I was first learning Unix.
(I did have a phase where I used WordStar and VisiCalc long after they were surpassed by others.)
I still have a soft spot for WordStar, to an extent where I wrote a WordStar-to-Markdown converter just to make WordTsar (no typo) even more useful for my daily usage. (Emacs doesn’t just cut it for letters.)
I was unfamiliar with wordtsar, that’s amazing.
Enjoy! The developer is happy about any bug reports and/or feature ideas, and he’s really responsive. :-)
Is it better than nano? It has all the standard Ctrl-based keyboard shortcuts these days, syntax highlighting etc.
It’s still more feature rich than Nano, with things like macros and multi-file search/replace from the command line though since I started using it, Nano has taken up some of the slack.
The WordPad that was recently discontinued?
I remember dropping stink bombs in the schoolyard
I use helix, and it does have bold and italic! what I really like about helix is how you can have multiple cursors at once.
What’s wrong with the official nightly builds for Windows?
They’re not built with the latest libraries, IIRC not even MSVC.
Couldn't they just use a Windows VM on Linux to run the build tests?
Not that I care, the only vim I use occasionally is under MSYS64 (I think... maybe it's just plain vi).
