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 MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday August 23 2018, @05:16PM (2 children)
He always said "Ying-Yang" quietly to himself whenever he typed "yy".
As a result I have always done that too.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @08:28PM (1 child)
Yin Yang. No 'g'
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday August 24 2018, @07:19AM
I would have followed up with a correction but I've actually done well at focussing on my coding work today.
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