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Re: Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim

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Vim wasn't backwards compatible with vi. And your reasoning lacks a logical basis, with all points being subjective.

> Vim wasn't backwards compatible with vi. Yes, but, it tried to be with the 'compatible' option: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#'compatib... (Not to say it fully succeeded.) > And your reasoning lacks a logical basis, with all points being subjective. If by points you mean my list at the top, those are facts. Past the list, everything else is subjective, yes. Liking and disliking a name is a subj…

Um, no, they aren't facts at all.

Re: Remove Ex-Mode from Neovim

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Vim is a programmer's dream. If my only use were editing files in CLI, though, I'd have always used nano and not learned vim, as well.

I thought IDEs were a programmer's dream :D

IDEs are a programmer's depressing reality.
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