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."
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:16PM
I think one of my biggest gripes about vi is the lack of prominent visual indication for what mode you are in. That, and the lie that there's edit mode and command mode - there's also command line mode, which at least jumps the blinkincursor to the bottom of the screen.
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