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I don't know why ipkiss flagged this for delete, but my reasons for supporting the idea are:
- The tip is very specific to a particular need.
- My guess is that the need is pretty rare, and is certainly not the sort of thing that Vimmers normally discuss (they might discuss tags, folding, diff, make, etc).
- It's hard to follow the tip because the particular need has masses of complex stuff which would only make sense to a very small number of people.
- The tip is just not helpful for most readers.
- We need to concentrate our efforts on tips that generally will be helpful.
- I don't see how you could clean up the tip to make it more helpful (not without a large effort). Would you put it in a PayPal category??
- I'm a bit uneasy about the focus of the tip being for a commercial service (I thought it was spam at first).
--JohnBeckett 10:54, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Accidently typed control-u and lost your input?
I've never experienced the particular problem mentioned in the tip, and the tip itself is expressed very poorly, so I didn't understand that it actually has a point.
It appears the tip concerns a defect in Vim, namely, if you type in text in insert mode and press Ctrl-U, you lose what you entered, and undo is stupidly unhelpful.
I suppose the tip could be completely rewritten to make it clear what it's about, and a more helpful solution to the problem could be provided, and the typo in the title could be fixed.
I was thinking for some doubtful tips that I might post on the vim_use mailing list, and solicit opinions and help on fixing (or deleting) a particular tip. This tip would be a good candidate for that.
OTOH I would be quite happy to just delete this tip so we can concentrate on more helpful material, but if anyone wants to fix it, please do so.
--JohnBeckett 10:54, 26 July 2007 (UTC)