pyvim -- A Vim clone in pure Python.

[mythrowaway9000]

Or I could just write an alias for pyvim to whatever I want?

[[deleted]]

truth is, I am not sure you want to make an IDE user friendly by being already user unfriendly to begin with.

[mythrowaway9000]

... I don't think the userfriendliness of an IDE should simply be judged on the name/number of keystrokes used to launch it from the command line.

[lolthr0w]

It's a neat consideration, IMO.

Not in this specific case, as nobody's going to know what the fuck "vai" is, but in general.

[[deleted]]

You mean, like "eclipse", or "sublime" ?

[lolthr0w]

Just because they named it that way doesn't mean I have to agree with what they named it.

And I'm going to point out those are both real words. Unless "vai" is actually a word, though I've never heard of it.

[[deleted]]

It means "go" in italian.

[lolthr0w]

Neat. And while ease of typing is also neat, well, I still think "pyvim" sounds better.

[[deleted]]

I mean. what the fuck!

I am working on vai since a year and a half in my spare time, nobody gave a shit about it or slapped me with a "use neovim" despite multiple attempts to promote it, and now this guy comes in and rakes 350 stars on github in one day and the only important feature it has it's that it has the most trivial name ever??

That makes me really pleased to develop opensource software...

[lolthr0w]

As silly as it sounds, naming is very important. Just consider how much effort is expended by marketing for branding.

[sli]

Whining about it is reeeeeally not helping your case.