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All I need is a classic bad VI. Only thing lacking is syntax colours and multiple undo. I hate when people using ViM claim that they are vi users or experts...
by iberator 8mo ago
All I need is a classic bad VI. Only thing lacking is syntax colours and multiple undo.
I hate when people using ViM claim that they are vi users or experts...
I miss elVis also. ViM should be banned from all distros because it is literally nag-ware and charity ware (Uganda 's children thing). 30 years later we still can't edit files bigger than RAM size unless you want to use swap file ...
Even commodore 64 had editors which could edit files bigger than RAM and WITHOUT ANY kind of swapping to the disk.
/rant
- zabzonk 8mo ago> WITHOUT ANY kind of swapping to the disk how?
- nlitened 8mo agoI would guess that you just remember at which file offsets you need to insert what, and which offset ranges you need to delete from the original file — and on file save you just do a single linear sweep to update the file contents on disk.
- iberator 8mo agoyou just load data that is on your screen.
- embedding-shape 8mo ago> I hate when people using ViM claim that they are vi users or experts I'd go a step further and say because I know and use neovim, I'm also a vi user. Sue me :)
- maleldil 8mo ago> ViM should be banned from all distros because it is literally nag-ware and charity ware It's a two-line message on the startup screen. How does that bother you so much?