:help design-not
VIM IS... NOT						*design-not*

- Vim is not a shell or an Operating System.  You will not be able to run a
  shell inside Vim or use it to control a debugger.  This should work the
  other way around: Use Vim as a component from a shell or in an IDE.
  A satirical way to say this: "Unlike Emacs, Vim does not attempt to include
  everything but the kitchen sink, but some people say that you can clean one
  with it.  ;-)"
- Vim is not a fancy GUI editor that tries to look nice at the cost of
  being less consistent over all platforms.  But functional GUI features are
  welcomed.

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Where can I get Perl macros for vi?

For a complete version of Tom Christiansen's vi configuration file, see http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Tom_Christiansen/scripts/toms.exrc.gz, the standard benchmark file for vi
emulators. This runs best with nvi, the current version of vi out of Berkeley, which incidentally can be built with an embedded Perl interpreter -- see
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/misc.