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> Target notes that in the days before GNU Emacs, it could cost hundreds of dollars to install Emacs. “So vi became enormously popular.” I haven't even conside

> Target notes that in the days before GNU Emacs, it could cost hundreds of dollars to install Emacs. “So vi became enormously popular.” I haven't even considered there was an emacs before gnu emacs. ... Ctrl + F neo ... Damn, no mention of neovim. I was hoping they'd have mentioned it. Feels like an oversight given the completeness of the rest of the pre-vi, vi, and vim history.

synthmeat 8y ago
While I don't believe neovim is still a complete refactor, particulary with regards to stability, I also don't think it gets mentioned enough as a competitive advantage of Vim landscape. With it, Vim now basically has very robust, modern, async, understood-by-many-contributors, sanely-scriptable, extensible, embeddable version that'll propel it far into future. I'm bullish on Vim.
JdeBP 8y ago
It misses out a lot of them. There are at least ex; vi; stevie; elvis; calvin; elwin; javi; lemmy; pvic; trived; vigor; vile; vip; virus; winvi; xvi; vim; nvi; and nvim. * http://guckes.net/vi/clones.php3 http://guckes.net/vi/clones.php3