RE: [PATCH] Add project-wide .vimrc configuration

From: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: Dec 9, 2020, 16:18 UTC
Message-ID: <01a801d6ce46$f2cad520$d8607f60$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh7ov2y97.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On December 9, 2020 3:13 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
> Cc: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>; Git
> <git@vger.kernel.org>; Jeff King <peff@peff.net>; Emily Shaffer
> <emilyshaffer@google.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add project-wide .vimrc configuration
> 
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >> *2* In other words, I doubt these graphs are depicting "how widely is
> >> an editor used by developers".  It is just showing how often it is
> >> installed, and I know the primary workstation I use daily has vim and
> >> nano installed without me choosing to have them, as opposed to emacs
> >> I had to manually install, and I only use vim once every month and
> >> nano once every quarter.
> >
> > Yes, but in Arch Linux at least no editor is installed by default.
> 
> I thought everybody has nano not because it is adequate and usable for
> them, but because it comes by default with distros, and distro in turn

choose

> nano not because it is particularly popular but is small enough not to

matter

> if left behind unused when the user chooses a real editor.
> 
> But you are essentially usaying that 80% of Arch users install nano by

choice.

> I find it doubly surprising.

I know of perhaps 3 or 4 nano users in the NonStop community. There are probably three orders of magnitude more vi/vim users. vim and vi both come installed on the platform by default. Nano is an add-on that my team builds as a courtesy but there's small interest but it is loyal.

Regards, Randall