How Did Vim Become So Popular?

Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by NateEag on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @09:13PM (#23696695)

Perhaps my favorite video on YouTube is this glorious footage of someone hooking a 1930s teletype up to a computer running Linux:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2XLZ4Z8LpEE

Watching it for the first time is what finally made ed click for me.

And yes, I was disappointed that the author clearly didn't understand why ed has the UI it does. It's about the teletype, not the computational cost of having a WYSIWIG UI.

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by klysm on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @07:24AM (#23700255)

I desperately want to set up a teletype on my modern desktop - there’s just something so awesome about electromechanical interfaces with a lot more mechanical than electro.

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by NateEag on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @07:28AM (#23700290)

Agreed. I have some mechanically-minded young sons who I'm hoping to introduce to computing by way of a teletype of some sort.

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by andrewksl on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:32AM (#23710830)

Yeah that video is all kinds of amazing. I also got lost down a several hour rabbit hole watching the guy and his buddies bring up an AGC and perform a simulated lunar landing with it. Thank you for sharing!

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by koolba on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:37PM (#23697513)

That video is amazing!

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