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RIP Bram Moolenaar, the author of vim text editor (groups.google.com)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by VulcanSphere@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Technically, that is not vim specific, conning from sed and ed, but definitely worked in vim as well as all vi clones

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[–] chinpokomon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago

This is why it works so well. It's also one of the reasons I prefer vi over other text editors. It isn't always the most logical which commands and keys do what, but I like the consistency.

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