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It was totally normal (especially back in the day) to edit a makefile on a remote host with vanilla vi. There weren't any electron apps in 1976. Hell, vi is onl
by zwkrt 4y ago
It was totally normal (especially back in the day) to edit a makefile on a remote host with vanilla vi. There weren't any electron apps in 1976. Hell, vi is only a few months older than make, so when it was created I bet the usual way of editing a makefile was with ed!
Talk about a badly configured editor...
- bhaak 4y agoFWIW I just looked it up and ex already had the "list" option which allowed to specify how control characters are displayed. Naturally vi had that as well.