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So Vim is broken because you can't have a clock in your status line? Are you an idiot? Seriously, all that ranting and you can't come up with a single practical example of Vim being "broken" other than not being able to have a clock in your status line? I'm assuming you just made up the segfault thing because I have literally never seen that happen.


The clock is a basic example of something simple vim can't do. It's not because I can't have a clock.


That's a stupid example and it undermines everything sensible you said elsewhere.

What about the following useful usecases?

* on-the-fly syntax validation * non-blocking as-you-type completion * live results from shell commands * fast syntax highlighting * etc.


Well a clock is pretty easy to make, so an easy challenge to anyone countering me, you just change some numbers somewhere, but sure. I guess I just didn't have the imagination to think of something better while in rant mode.




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