How Did Vim Become So Popular?
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How Did Vim Become So Popular?
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Re: How Did Vim Become So Popular?
#2> What I am trying to say that vim is an effort of over half a century of good idea accumulation, putting lots of effort into being backward compatible.
I wonder what Vi(m) would be like if it were redesigned from scratch.
Re: How Did Vim Become So Popular?
#3Probably because it was the default editor in a bunch of Linux distributions.
Re: How Did Vim Become So Popular?
#4> What I am trying to say that vim is an effort of over half a century of good idea accumulation, putting lots of effort into being backward compatible. I wonder what Vi(m) would be like if it were redesigned from scratch.
Isn't that what neovim is trying to do?
Re: How Did Vim Become So Popular?
#5Probably because it was the default editor in a bunch of Linux distributions.
Isn't Pico the usual default?
Re: How Did Vim Become So Popular?
#6It was there, and it was (and still is) good enough.
Re: How Did Vim Become So Popular?
#7> What I am trying to say that vim is an effort of over half a century of good idea accumulation, putting lots of effort into being backward compatible. I wonder what Vi(m) would be like if it were redesigned from scratch.
Probably something like spacemacs.
Re: How Did Vim Become So Popular?
#8> What I am trying to say that vim is an effort of over half a century of good idea accumulation, putting lots of effort into being backward compatible. I wonder what Vi(m) would be like if it were redesigned from scratch.
Isn't that what neovim is trying to do?
AFAIK it still tries to stay mostly compatible with regards to how it is controlled, doesn't it? So while the internals are perhaps new, the frontend is not.
But I think Kakoune https://kakoune.org would fit the bill
Re: How Did Vim Become So Popular?
#9> What I am trying to say that vim is an effort of over half a century of good idea accumulation, putting lots of effort into being backward compatible. I wonder what Vi(m) would be like if it were redesigned from scratch.
I've been loving vis¹, a hybrid between traditional vi and sam², a text editor Rob Pike designed from close to scratch.
(Edit) I learned vim a little bit over a year ago, switched to neovim soon after, tried kakuone for a few days and didn't like losing so much muscle memory because of the verb-noun order reversal, switched to vis a few months ago and don't plan to switch back.
1: https://github.com/martanne/vis 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_(text_editor), http://sam.cat-v.org/
Re: How Did Vim Become So Popular?
#10Because nobody knows how to quit