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Re:20 Years of Vim by rob74 on Saturday August 12, 2023 @02:05PM (#37102691)
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.
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Re:20 Years of Vim by loeg on Saturday August 12, 2023 @03:02PM (#37103182)
> 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!

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Re:20 Years of Vim by IAmYourDensity on Saturday August 12, 2023 @07:23PM (#37105116)
And was called "Vi IMitation" not "Vi IMproved"? Interesting.
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