Boot to Vim, Vim as PID 1

Re:Boot to Vim, Vim as PID 1 by etaioinshrdlu on Saturday April 22, 2023 @03:46AM (#35664284)

I bet it wouldn't be too extremely hard to port Vim to https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan and run it without an OS (BIOS mode in cosmopolitan).

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Re:Boot to Vim, Vim as PID 1 by matheusmoreira on Saturday April 22, 2023 @04:39AM (#35664516)

Wouldn't that require implementing a terminal emulator inside vim?

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Re:Boot to Vim, Vim as PID 1 by nixpulvis on Saturday April 22, 2023 @05:08AM (#35664660)

https://vimhelp.org/terminal.txt.html

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Re:Boot to Vim, Vim as PID 1 by extinctpotato on Saturday April 22, 2023 @06:03AM (#35664944)

This is a terminal emulator within vim. I believe that they meant that a terminal emulator for Vim would be required so that it could handle ANSI escape codes, etc. This is something that a VGA graphics card couldn't handle on its own.

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Re:Boot to Vim, Vim as PID 1 by jandeboevrie on Saturday April 22, 2023 @04:11PM (#35670478)

As we say in Dutch, u vraagt wij draaien (your request is my command, roughly translated) : https://raymii.org/s/blog/Bare_Metal_Boot_to_Vi.html

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Re:Boot to Vim, Vim as PID 1 by etaioinshrdlu on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:01PM (#35705086)

WHOA! Awesome! You should post this on HN as a new post!

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