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posted by chromas on Wednesday August 22 2018, @09:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the :wq dept.

Over at The New Stack is a brief but entertaining history of the editor vi and Vim.

"The editor was optimized so that you could edit and feel productive when it was painting slower than you could think. Now that computers are so much faster than you can think, nobody understands this anymore," Joy said. "It was a world that is now extinct. People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore."


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @07:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @07:48AM (#725102)

    I found VIM an interesting distraction from legacy spaghetti code I used to maintain way back when.
    VimGolf has neat challenges that helped to learn some of the power inherent in the editor
    https://www.vimgolf.com/ [vimgolf.com]

    I'm a bit rusty these days, but it is still satisfying to be free of bloated UIs and to keep one's hands on the keyboard

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