Someday 'vi' might symlink to 'nvim' instead of 'vim'. 'VI Improved Improved'!
Mr. Greer's post was necessarily incendiary; He's building his brand. Wasting space on the front page of HN is a feather in his cap.
Mr. Greer's post was necessarily incendiary; He's building his brand. Wasting space on the front page of HN is a feather in his cap.
If you don't believe my claim of selflessness, believe my claim of competence: If I was trying to build a personal brand, I could do much better than delving into Vim's codebase for a one-off snippet. It's not difficult to create insubstantial content that is widely-shared. I can think of a dozen topics whose mere mention can drive immense traffic and waste absurd amounts of time. HN's front page attests to this.
It's a shame that many people scrutinize others for selfishness. Purely selfish behavior is an extreme rarity, yet it takes much longer to refute such accusations than to make them. I wish it were otherwise.
Before deriding others, please remember: Almost no one is evil. Almost everything is broken.[1]
1. A quote from http://blog.jaibot.com/
I'm sorry if I don't think you're being sincere. Let's have a drink sometime! Let's network!
1. Anything as old as vim, continuously developed, will have any number of these frankenfunctions. They're not hard to find.
Still, others read these comments, so I feel compelled to offer corrections: 18 months ago, I pledged $50 to Neovim's Bountysource. My company has not contributed a cent to Neovim. We maintain plugins for many text editors, including Vim and Neovim. That's it.
You keep slinging mud, but there is no ulterior motive at work here. I urge you to treat people more charitably in the future.
Don't ask for sympathy ("They don't want civility or truth!!!"), ask yourself why you were treated "uncivilized".
Truth? I suspect that's a glitch in translation.
>Don't try and pretend your problems are our problems. Struggling to survive, scrap by scrap. Fuck off. If you're ever in the Silicon Valley we should "meet up". I'll be nicer to you.
You trawled through my writings to find one sentence in one blog post[1] to voice outrage at. I'm not sure how to react to that. I guess... congratulations on your hard work.
I live in the bay area, but I prefer not to hang out with people who treat others so callously. I hope you understand.
Edit: It appears roghummal has significantly revised his comment since I finished my reply.
It doesn't 'appear' that way, that's the way it is. My edit was, just guesstimating here, 25 minutes before your post? Edit was 2-5 minutes after my original post?
You've never said anything you quickly realized was indefensible?
Wrong, even?
Your titles are bait. Their substance is minimal. When you've had something to say it has been said before, better. If you care about the code as much as you claim you should let it go. (I'm questioning this last statement.)
You're a natural born CEO. Find your Woz.
Edit: And then someone to run your company. (I just saw "Judging from this comment and others, you seem uninterested in civility or truth. I doubt anything can change your mind on this issue.")