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Which is to say that they don't understand vim, or rather, they don't even grok vi.

You can't beat your enemy if you don't understand your enemy.

"Go ahead and down vote more, I just wish you guys can learn more of vi, so you can truly deliver something better. So far, these surface scratching alterations only build on irritations of those vi first-timers. Good luck.

"By the way, I use acme when I have graphics interface, nothing beats sam's structured regexp editing capability, apart from writing perl scripts. Learn something, guys.



You can be sure that the Kakoune authors are familiar with vi(m).

Having said that, if you like both vi(m) and the structural regular expression support of sam/acme you might be interested in vis which combines the two:

https://github.com/martanne/vis


>I just wish you guys can learn more of vi, so you can truly deliver something better. So far, these surface scratching alterations only build on irritations of those vi first-timers

Mind expanding on that, or are you just going to whine? It's not like vi is the ultimate tool.




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