Editor recommendations for new users.

[Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:14:07 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:08:52 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner 
> wrote:
>> Indeed, but that's only the raw executable, not the full 
>> package (which includes things like syntax highlighting), 
>> which adds another 26MB.
>> But, yes, Textadept and vim+vim-core (Gentoo speak) are both 
>> gigantic required to bare bones vim. But bare bones vim 
>> doesn't fulfill the syntax highlighting requirement IIRC.
>
> I don't know how it is packaged on your system, but the vim 
> syntax highlighting for D is like 12 KB and pretty easy to just 
> drop in and use on its own.

One can definitely splice together one's own minimal vim with D 
support, but that would require more work than simply installing 
the right packages (which I assumed the requirement "simple to 
install" to exclude).
The 26MB I spoke of are localizations (manual, messages, 
keymaps), default shipped .vim files (like netrw, color schemes, 
languages, compiler support), docfiles, and vim-tutor, all of 
which are AFAIK part of the canonical vim distribution.