discuss: replacing the howto and reviewing
Subject:
Re: replacing the howto and reviewing
From:
Colin Watson ####@####.####
Date:
13 Nov 2003 11:33:58 -0000
Message-Id: <20031113013948.GF25757@riva.ucam.org>
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:43:12AM +0530, rahul wrote:
> vim howto - do we have good material of vim elsewhere?. vim is very
> important to linux sys admins and its important that ldp have some
> information on it.
The online help which ships with vim itself is one of the most
outstanding works of documentation I've ever seen. It includes a
complete user and reference manual as well as howto-style hints, and
it's easily accessible from within vim (just type ":help" or F1) and
highly cross-referenced.
Not that I can stop anyone from spending their time as they wish,
obviously, but frankly, I'm not sure it's worthwhile for the LDP to try
to top that. Contributing to the vim help files might be a better use of
vim experts' time.
I suspect that the Vim-HOWTO originally dates from before the user
manual was added to the vim help files. At the time when they were
essentially just a reference manual, a separate LDP document made sense.
Nowadays it feels somewhat redundant.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson ####@####.####
