From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-08-26T07:46:59+09:00
Subject: Re: vim-ruby...taking the bitterness out?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Sawyer" <transami@transami.net>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 12:54 AM
Subject: vim-ruby...taking the bitterness out?


> i admit i don't generally use vim. i've been using scite instead. the
> simple reason is that i am not used to the "modes" of vim, but more
> importantly i hate how cut (yank), copy, paste, etc work. for i am very
> used to ctrl+x..v, having spent years using windows (since the end of my
> amiga days, and of course MSDOS before that) yet vim has a lot of cool
> features and i'm really starting to feel that i must use it. so i looked
> into remapping some keys to suit me, and holy syntax! i discovered
> Cream!
>
> http://cream.sourceforge.net/index.html
>
> now somebody please tell me that all the cool ruby stuff will still work
> when i add the Cream. please!
>
> i have the coffee --i have the ruby-vim debian pakg installed. now for a
> little sugar with *Cream*. can you tell i'm happy about this?
>
> so does anyone know if there will be any conflict between the ruby
> extensions and cream? i'll be trying it out myself tomorrow. so if not,
> i'll let you all know.

I don't know the detail of what's in cream, but it wil involve a *lot* of
keyboard mappings for sure.  I also don't know the details of the ruby-vim
package, but needless to say there may be some conflicting mappings.  It should
all ultimately work, though.

> --
> ~transami

Gavin