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A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages

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

hubie writes:

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, Disagree) by snufu on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:56AM (1 child)

    by snufu (5855) on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:56AM (#724980)

    about how many key commands you had to memorize will not save these editors from irrelevance, especially as your memory degrades and you appreciate the discoverability of well designed GUIs (admittedly rare too). Cryptic, hidden, unintuitive interfaces are not empowering, we endure them for the other advantages. As soon as I find a FOSS version of org mode with sane CUA defaults and a GUI, I am g.o.n.e.

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  • (Score: 2) by suburbanitemediocrity on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:11AM

    by suburbanitemediocrity (6844) on Thursday August 23 2018, @01:11AM (#724989)

    To know that they're there and how to take advantage of them is sufficient. Google is good for remembering things.