How Did Vim Become So Popular?

Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by jng on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:19AM (#23699527)

Here's my best take at this so far, I wrote it in 2007:

Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi? http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by funcDropShadow on Thursday July 02, 2020 @08:22AM (#23712343)

This post has been my enlightenment about modal editing. Thank you for this excellent piece. And I've referred dozens of people to it after me.

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by jng on Sunday July 05, 2020 @03:28PM (#23741187)

My pleasure :)

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