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I really don't want to learn much more of vi than is documented in the POSIX standard: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/ https://pubs
by chasil 1y ago
I really don't want to learn much more of vi than is documented in the POSIX standard:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/ https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/
I'm in busybox and on OpenBSD quite a bit, and all the vim embellishments would be a clutter of my neurons.
- jnwatson 1y agoCool that you're into retrocomputing, but many of the rest of us think perhaps some features added to vim from the last 30 years might be useful. That vi was standardized was one of the many failures of POSIX as an idea. The very idea that we should freeze a text editor for all time is silliness in the extreme.
- chasil 1y agoWhile you may be a detractor, Apple appears to be an ardent admirer. https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/ https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
- enneff 1y agoYet they ship macOS with vim installed and zsh as the default shell.
- JdeBP 1y agoDon't let on that OpenBSD does not have vi either. Its vi is actually nvi, yet another vi clone, that Keith Bostic derived from elvis.