Posted by
chrisd
on from the vim-is-the-one-true-editor dept.
vimbigot writes "A nice summary of where Vim 6.0 has come from, with some insights into Bram Moolenaar's thoughts on Open Source, Charityware and large cooperative software projects. (a bit of irony in the `powered by emacs logo at the bottom !')"
noooooooo! vi has been overrun by newbies . . .
by
hawk
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· Score: 4, Informative
*sigh*
There was a time when every right-thinking vi user would thump those who claimed that vi had modes, because it just isn't true. But the heresy is spreading, and has even gotten into some documentation.
There is *not* an insert mode in vi. Instead, insertion is a command. "i" does not change modes, but instead, is the command "at this point, insert everything until I end this command with escape."
OK, so the newer versions in which you can use arrow keys to manuever during an insertion make this a bit odd . . .
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Vi Improved by Steve Oualline is an excellent book if you want to discover Vim (as opposed to vi)
www.vim.org is cool and all, but check out vim.sf.net for a site with all kinds of Vim resources and docs.
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
There was a time when every right-thinking vi user would thump those who claimed that vi had modes, because it just isn't true. But the heresy is spreading, and has even gotten into some documentation.
There is *not* an insert mode in vi. Instead, insertion is a command. "i" does not change modes, but instead, is the command "at this point, insert everything until I end this command with escape."
OK, so the newer versions in which you can use arrow keys to manuever during an insertion make this a bit odd . . .
hawk, in curmudgeon mode