Re: [dev] Re: [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-18 Thread FRIGN
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:15:52 -0500 Jimmie Houchin wrote: > It seems to me that what they really need to develop the courage to do > is this. For the C++17 standard. Decide on what that smaller and cleaner > language should be. Make strong deprecations and warnings for use of > stuff outside of

Re: [dev] Re: [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-17 Thread Ralph Eastwood
On 16 September 2014 23:45, FRIGN wrote: > The strongest argument for me against C++ is not a technical one, but > the fact that you are forced to program in subsets. > This leads to the problem that new developers planning on contributing > to a project might have problems with adapting to it bec

Re: [dev] Re: [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-17 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 09/16/2014 05:45 PM, FRIGN wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:25:02 -0500 Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hey Jimmie, Seeing how much C++ people complain about the C like stuff or the actual C stuff in C++. Why don't they just grow a pair and clean out all the stuff they complain about. Simplify the lan

[dev] Re: [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-17 Thread Christian Neukirchen
Marc André Tanner writes: >> Operators >> - >>planned: > (shift-right), < (shift-left) > > Those are now also (at least in a rudimentary way) implemented. > > Could some vim expert on the list tell me whether it is possible to > indent the next n lines by m levels in vim? Vnjm> I

Re: [dev] Re: [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-17 Thread Dimitris Papastamos
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:28:41AM -0500, Jimmie Houchin wrote: > C Primer Plus, 6th ed., Stephen Prata > 21st Century C, 2nd ed., Ben Klemens > Understanding and Using C Pointers, Richard Reese I am not familiar with these books, I learnt from K&R and I'd recommend you do the same. Once you've g

Re: [dev] Re: [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-17 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 09/17/2014 12:50 AM, Markus Teich wrote: Jimmie Houchin wrote: I have been for the last several weeks (months) researching what language I want to use to implement a couple of apps I want to do. What kind of apps are you planning to write? What I am working on right now is a quantitative

Re: [dev] Re: [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-16 Thread Markus Teich
Jimmie Houchin wrote: > I have been for the last several weeks (months) researching what language I > want to use to implement a couple of apps I want to do. What kind of apps are you planning to write? > So I have this internal debate in me as to whether or not to learn C and/or > C++. One one h

Re: [dev] Re: [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-16 Thread FRIGN
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:25:02 -0500 Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hey Jimmie, > Seeing how much C++ people complain about the C like stuff or the actual > C stuff in C++. Why don't they just grow a pair and clean out all the > stuff they complain about. Simplify the language and get on with it. As > i

[dev] Re: [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-16 Thread Jimmie Houchin
On 09/16/2014 02:37 AM, Markus Teich wrote: M Farkas-Dyck wrote: [1] http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus [2] http://gigamonkeys.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/coders-c-plus-plus/ Heyho, also relevant for the (non-)topic: http://bartoszmilewski.com/2013/09/19/edward-chands/ --Markus Thank

Re: [dev] Re: [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-14 Thread q
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:23:56AM +0200, Marc Andr? Tanner wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 04:39:15PM +0200, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > > o seems to be broken on the last line. > > This and other issues related to movements / modifications at end of > the file are likely fixed now. For exampl

Re: [dev] Re: [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-14 Thread Marc André Tanner
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 04:39:15PM +0200, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > o seems to be broken on the last line. This and other issues related to movements / modifications at end of the file are likely fixed now. For example Ctrl+w at the end of the command prompt now also works as expected. -- M

Re: [dev] Re: [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-13 Thread Marc André Tanner
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 04:39:15PM +0200, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > Marc André Tanner writes: > > TLDR: I'm writing an experimental but (hopefully) highly efficient vim > > like text editor based on a piece chain data structure. You will find > > an url to a git repository at the end of this

[dev] Re: [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-13 Thread Christian Neukirchen
Marc André Tanner writes: > TLDR: I'm writing an experimental but (hopefully) highly efficient vim > like text editor based on a piece chain data structure. You will find > an url to a git repository at the end of this rather long mail. Funny, I just thought tonight about a variant of vi where