Re:20 Years of Vim
by jodrellblank on Saturday August 12, 2023 @01:11PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors
Sort by creation date, notepad, kedit, kwrite, notepad++, Scite, and plenty more.
Notepad++ (Windows, 2003) / gedit (GNOME, 1998) / kwrite/kate (KDE, 2001) all existed in 2008 and are totally fine basic text editors for source code. I remember editing PHP in a more obscure editor (SciTE, 1999) on Windows in the early 2000s.
Most of all those are gui based, when running a small Slackware setup without X none of those are available.
They're all GUIs. Most people using computers in the late 2000s were using GUIs, not X-less Slackware. You asked what "normal" was -- this is normal.
Using GUI doesn't mean not using CLI.
This is not responsive to my comments.
You might be surprised to learn that the original version of Vim (on the Amiga: https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/l5j53m/the_text_edit...) was a GUI based application! Ok, it didn't have much in the way of an actual GUI, but it ran in a window which wasn't the shell/CLI window. I guess the actual reason why Vim is a console application on Linux is the lack of a "standard" GUI framework.
> I guess the actual reason why Vim is a console application on Linux is the lack of a "standard" GUI framework.
gvim (for GTK/Gnome) is an official part of vim!
Re:20 Years of Vim
by IAmYourDensity on Saturday August 12, 2023 @07:23PM
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And was called "Vi IMitation" not "Vi IMproved"? Interesting.
After trying out finger-twister with Emacs, vim was a breath of fresh air, and had better features than plain "vi", like it was improved or something.
Now, how do I save and exit?