[Vim-l] New tips - Feb, Mar, Apr

[Robert Melton]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:38 AM, John Beckett <johnb.beckett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Please help finalise deciding the fate of proposed new tips for February,
> March and
> April. I have put an opinion for each tip, so I just need someone to agree
> to make a
> consensus. Of course if you're inclined to argue, that would be good too -
> you can
> add a comment on the article, or reply here.
>
> An easy way to agree would be to add a comment in the "General comments"
> section
> saying that you agree with all opinions expressed so far (except where
> you've
> commented on an individual tip).
>
> If you start here, you can click the links to each month:
> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki:New_tips
>
> Luc started commenting on some of Metacosm's tips in February. However, I
> have now
> put the following note above the list of tips:
>
>  Suggestion: Leave consideration of the following until Metacosm returns.
>
> Some of you may have missed the thread where Metacosm raised many
> interesting
> issues:
> http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/vim-l/2008-February/000358.html
>
> I don't think it's worthwhile doing anything with Metacosm's tips at the
> moment. I'm
> certainly not going to delete anything from #vim now, or do any work on
> them. Yet
> many of the tips are not what we are used to, so it's easiest just to
> leave them.
>
> John
>
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I am still around and kicking, had a family emergency to attend to, that is
why I vanished for a bit.  Back home and catching up on everything since May
1st.

As for my tips, they are more in a "help" vein (most of them) and I don't
know if they have been getting much traffic (can we track that?) -- and they
don't fit very cleanly with the rest of the site.  I believe some of them
are probably good merge candidates, and I will attempt to find those over
the next few weeks, see if I can remove some of them tips that ARE the style
you are used too.

As for the purely help-based tips, if you want them removed, I have no issue
with it.  I still believe there is room on the tips wiki for a help section,
and I believe that creating a separate site or wiki for it -- would reduce
value.  I think many times, the help someone seeks, is just a tip to someone
else.  I see a great degree of interplay between tips and help.
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