Wow, vim was less than a third its current age when I started using it. And now my fingers can’t use any other editor and I am locked in far more comprehensively than any monopolist could ever dream of doing with their most obnoxious anticompetitive behaviour.
As a journo I belong to the tiny minority of non-coding VIM users . In 1999 I needed a tool to de-format texts, bc formatted text would crash our nervous CMS. Notepad didn't do this reliably along the versions of Win98 & NT. Came @mond to our media house, installed VIM on WinNT and done . I learnt 2 dozen shortcuts, got GVIM & Linux & was awarded a .vimrc right to my needs as a coder in natural languages. From 2002 every single of my articles was written in [G]VIM 😎
that's so cool! Vim is just a little older than my partner and a little younger than her brother. Vim is still over a decade younger than my body. Heck, I think I soon qualify for senior discounts.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
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Oh, it only supports [smhd], and #TIL f: Go to older text state {N} file writes before. #vim
Vell
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Dutch programmer (1961–2023)
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Came @mond to our media house, installed VIM on WinNT and done .
I learnt 2 dozen shortcuts, got GVIM & Linux & was awarded a .vimrc right to my needs as a coder in natural languages.
From 2002 every single of my articles was written in [G]VIM 😎
It's FOSS
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