0  i1*quotes.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2018 Mar 29 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar *quotes* Here are some nice quotes about Vim that I collected from news and mail. vim (vim) noun - Ebullient vitality and energy. [Latin, accusative of vis, strength] (Dictionary) Vim is so much better than vi that a great many of my old vi :map's became immediately obsolete! (Tony Nugent, Australia) Coming with a very GUI mindset from Windows, I always thought of people using Vi as some kind of outer space alien in human clothes. Once I tried I really got addicted by its power and now I found myself typing Vim keypresses in the oddest places! That's why I would like to see Vim embedded in every application which deals with text editing. (José Fonseca) I was a 12-year emacs user who switched to Vim about a year ago after finally giving up on the multiple incompatible versions, flaky contributed packages, disorganized keystrokes, etc. And it was one of the best moves I ever made. (Joel Burton) Although all of the programs were used during the preparation of the new and revised material, most of the editing was done with Vim versions 4.5 and 5.0 under GNU-Linux (Redhat 4.2). (Arnold Robbins, Israel, author of "Learning the Vi editor") Out of all the open software i've ever seen and used, and i've seen a lot, Vim is the best, most useful and highest quality to work with, second only to the linux kernel itself. (Peter Jay Salzman) It's well worth noting that the _entirety_ of SourceForge was written using Vim and its nifty PHP syntax highlighting. I think the entire SF.net tech staff uses Vim and we're all excited to have you aboard! (Tim Perdue) Vim is one of a select bunch of tools for which I have no substitute. It is a brilliant piece of work! (Biju Chacko) A previous girlfriend of mine switched to emacs. Needless to say, the relationship went nowhere. (Geoffrey Mann) I rarely think about Vim, in the same way that I guess a fish rarely thinks about water. It's the environment in which everything else happens. I'm a fairly busy system administrator working on a lot of different platforms. Vim is the only thing that's consistent across all my systems, and it's just about the only thing that doesn't break from time to time. When a new system comes in the door without Vim, I install it right away. Great to have a tool that's the same everywhere, that's completely reliable, so I can ignore it and think about other things. (Pete Schaeffer) Having recently succeeded in running Vim via telnet through a Nokia Communicator, I can now report that it works nicely on a Palm Pilot too. (Allan Kelly, Scotland) You've done a tremendous job with 'VIM', Bram! The more I use it, the more impressed I get (I am an old 'vi' die hard who once started out with early versions of 'emacs' in the late 1970's and was relieved by finding 'vi' in the first UNIX I came across in 1983). In my opinion, it's about time 'VIM' replace 'emacs' as the standard for top editors. (Bo Thide', Sweden) I love and use Vim heavily too. (Larry Wall) Vi is like a Ferrari, if you're a beginner, it handles like a bitch, but once you get the hang of it, it's small, powerful and FAST! (Unknown) Vim is like a new model Ferrari, and sounds like one too - "VIIIIIIMMM!" (Stephen Riehm, Germany) Schon bei Nutzung eines Bruchteils der Vim-Funktionen wird der Benutzer recht schnell die Vorzuege dieses Editors kennen- und schaetzenlernen. Translated: Even when only using a fraction of Vim-functions, the user will quickly get used to and appreciate the advantages of this editor. (Garry Glendown, conclusion of an article on Vim in iX magazine 9/1998) I've recently acquired the O'Reilly book on Vi (it also discusses Vim in-depth), and I'm amazed at just how powerful this application is. (Jeffrey Rankin) This guide was written using the Windows 9.x distribution of gvim, which is quite possibly the greatest thing to come along since God created the naked girl. (Michael DiBernardo) Boy, I thou