[Tutor] [OT] Cool vim feature

[DL Neil]

On 29/04/20 4:56 AM, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> On 4/28/20 6:16 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
>> I've been using vi/vim since 1986.
>> Today I learned a cool new feature that has been there for at least 10
>> years and I never knew.
>>
>> When in insert mode if you hit Ctrl-N it brings up a list of completions
>> - IDE style. Repeated Ctlr-N steps through them. Ctrl-U cancels.
>>
>> There are other related strokes such as C-X C-F for file completion too.
>> :help ins-comp will get you the details.
>>
>> How could that be there for so long and I not know?! (I knew there were
>> plugins could do it, but I don't like using plugins because it makes the
>> editor inconsistent between machines.)
>>
>> Probably all the other vim users are saying, "of course..." but just in
>> case anyone else is missing out ...
> 
> I didn't know these either.
> 
> vim has been a lot more proactive than the old vi was in adding
> features.  Those of us who have been with vi for a very long time (I
> date back to the very beginning, I was attending UC Berkeley while it
> was being developed), and found vim did everything we were used to
> probably don't have a lot of incentive to keep exploring new stuff... at
> least that's been the case for me, I've discovered new stuff quite slowly.
Are Release Notes largely treated in the same manner as License Agreements?
(that's a bit long, I'm not going to read that/will come back to it later?)

Do we imagine that we (IT folk) are any more accepting of change than 
are our users?
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Regards =dn