I preferred Sinclair Target’s own history of ed,em,ex,vi,vim [1] (recently discussed on Hacker News [2]) on which much of this article was based. There were a

I preferred Sinclair Target’s own history of ed,em,ex,vi,vim [1] (recently discussed on Hacker News [2]) on which much of this article was based. There were a few interesting things that I learned from this article: * lower case letters had only recently been added to terminals. I had always presumed that terminals used the same technology as typewriters, i.e., use the Shift key for switching between upper and lower case. * vi was designed to be “usable over a 300 baud modem”. I’ve found that this aspect makes vi/vim useful over slow network connections – or when a remote server has runaway processes resulting in SSH being slow and unresponsive. It’s not always true that this is a “world that doesn’t exist anymore”. That world still pops into existence for brief moments of (stressful) time. [1] https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/05/where-vim-came-from.html https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/05/where-vim-came-from.htm... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17696023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17696023