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Few years ago I reported that I can't put a character in the most bottom-right corner when setting my own statusline. Bram responded that this was intentional,
by arp242 2y ago
Few years ago I reported that I can't put a character in the most bottom-right corner when setting my own statusline. Bram responded that this was intentional, as some (presumably already ancient) terminal emulators had problems with this.
I can probably take the vimrc and workflow I had for Vim 6 back in ~2000 and use it in the latest Vim without any changes or problems.
And look, if VS Code or whatever works better for some people: great! Fantastic that works for you! But for me, the dedication to compatibility and not breaking existing use cases is something I've really come to appreciate, even though it's a slight annoyance at times.
- worldsayshi 2y agoBeyond personal preferences i think there's great value in having tools that are that stable around. There are plenty of legacy systems around that needs to be maintained and if you can use an efficient and familiar tool that still works in that context that should help such use cases greatly.
- eviks 2y agoIf it's ancient, it's not an existing use case, so you just get the annoyance part
- arp242 2y agoHow do you know no one is using it? (perhaps "ancient" was a bit of an exaggeration by the way; "old" is probably better).
- dredmorbius 2y agoObxkcd: <https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/>