From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-08-17T12:18:04+09:00
Subject: Re: About ruvi and RT civility

On Tuesday, August 17, 2004, 6:35:12 AM, vruz wrote:

>>. I think that ruvi is a neat idea, but Gavin and
>> Hans are right: unless you're targeting 80% or more of vim's
>> features, there's no sense in calling it a vim clone. Calling it,
>> perhaps, a vi-alike editor, or vimlike editor, would be more
>> accurate.

> I agree Alex's claim may seem grandiose.
> Yet, if you have a look at the code, the ruvi core is complete,
> (albeit arguably not mature) anyone can extend it and improve
> its feature set to comply with the original vim.

> It depends if you have a loook at your favourite keystroke, you 
> notice it's not there, and you jump to the ML to complain about it.

For the record, I mentioned several keystrokes I saw not (properly)
implemented, explicicty said I wasn't complaining (and that is true,
because the completeness or otherwise of the project doesn't matter
much to me).

I just thought that an examination of the project -- its aims, what
it's done right and wrong -- on the ML would be a good idea.  I was
genuinely writing in a light-hearted manner, although with less tact
than usual.  When Alex took offense, I apologised off-list.

Cheers,
Gavin