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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by egwynn on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:45PM (#14403992)
It’s tremendously important to realize that Vim comes from a VERY long line of text processing utilities that stretches back over a half a century. Vim is the result of constant iteration on a set of design ideas and conventions that predates it. `Q` for `Quit` is one of the oldest Vim commands, tracing its roots all the way back to the `QED` editor of the 1960s[1]. Changing it now would be foolish.

[1] http://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20150203071645/http://cm.b...

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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by pishpash on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:13PM (#14404857)
While I love vim, your argument holds no water. By your argument, it's foolish to change anything at any time, because everything traces its roots back to "something."
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