[Trac #632] VIM 7

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#632: VIM 7
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 Reporter:  orospakr     |        Owner:  jg      
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal       |    Milestone:  BTest-2 
Component:  distro       |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment (by krstic):

 Replying to [comment:5 jg]:
 > Not to mention that for developers, no one editor fits all.
 > VIM is next to useless to me, and most other emacs users.

 It's not going to be useless to you, since we're going to provide a
 default set of modeless keybindings -- these make vim act like any other
 modeless, "normal" editor.

 > It should not be in the base image; and part of the develop bundle.

 I disagree. We must ship an editor outside of the develop bundle if we're
 serious about encouraging kids to hack their machines. Walter and I
 discussed this, and came to the conclusion that vim is the only truly
 powerful editor we can provide on the system -- given space constraints
 and similar, which ruled out emacs -- while making it simple to use by
 default (via the keybindings) but allowing kids to graduate to its full
 power.

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