Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8

Re:Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8 by flukus on Thursday February 09, 2017 @09:38PM (#13612861)

> The ADM-3A also explains why shells use ‘~’ to represent the home directory.

Is that also the origin of '^' being start of line in a regex?

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Re:Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8 by kps on Thursday February 09, 2017 @11:49PM (#13613297)

Good guess, but no. The ADM-3A dates to 1976, but the regular expression syntax is definitely earlier: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/qedman.html

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