JdeBPan hour ago
I was just talking about a fun and largely forgotten feature of Joy+Horton vi elsewhere.
* https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116793159030149624
You can see it here in Ritter vi on lines 83 et seq. of ex_vis.h . vi actually has three flavours of its 'open' mode, for cursor addressable video terminals, non-cursor addressable video terminals, and actual paper terminals.
There's an as-yet unfilled niche for the retrocomputeristas with genuine ADM-3s or (as someone pointed out) TI Silent 703s and suchlike to do a YouTube video showing Joy+Horton vi in its 3 open modes.
imglorp38 minutes ago
As an undergrad around 1984 I stumbled on some AT&T 3B2's in the computer lab and started to play. Knowing nothing of Unix (would have been ~ SVR3.x), I asked for help and the TA said something like "read the fine manual" as was customary. So I started off with "man something" and off we went, ending up at "man 1 vi", the glorious, pure original, none of this vim stuff...
Of course when I got onto the BSD VAX, someone set me straight and it was Emacs from there on..
GaryBluto4 hours ago
Tangentially related, I wish more websites and blogs looked like this now. It's elegant and modern but simple.
voidUpdate13 minutes ago
I wish it took up more than 640 pixels on the left of my 1920 pixel screen. I changed the CSS of the body to be 900pt instead of 480, and it renders at 1200px wide, which looks a lot nicer to my eyes. Didn't bother trying to center it though, which would have improved it even more
himata41134 hours ago
Lacks centering, other than that I also found it enjoyable to look at.
christophilus3 hours ago
To me, the justified text makes it an effortful read.
Gualdrapo3 hours ago
Yup, I hope every one agrees to leave proper justified text to LaTeX/ConTeXt/Typst/<your_favorite_typesetting_software>, doing such thing for HTML is still ugly and makes things harder to read
nosioptar2 hours ago
Breaks Firefox's reader mode.
Looks like dog shit on mobile.
I agree that this general style is good, just without some of this page's fuckups.
kpsan hour ago
Chrome's too, but why? It's just plain HTML.
heftigan hour ago
Mobile browsers are assuming you're looking at a legacy page optimized for desktops (widescreen) and have a relatively large virtual screen size by default. They expect you to manually zoom in as necessary. Adding this helps:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=640, initial-scale=1">
chorizoan hour ago
Safari reader mode on mobile works great. But then again, this is a site where you should not need it.
mghackerladyan hour ago
I wish elvis was still around. I don't want everything vim has but I like syntax highlighting and other conveniences
JdeBPan hour ago
senthil_rajasek3 hours ago
A 2007 article from sourceforge.net and it's not even throwback Thursday.
"Gunnar Ritter <[email protected]> 2007-11-29"
herodoturtle2 hours ago
It's been years since I heard the term "Throwback Thursday", funny that reading it here felt like a throwback in its own right ^_^
jbverschoor2 hours ago
vim with mouse frustrates the hell out of me.
Just give me basic vi, or a complete editor
setopt2 hours ago
`set compatible`?
haunter3 hours ago
Github mirror + some bugfixes
mikejulietbravoan hour ago
text editors 5ever
fragmede3 hours ago
:x is a vim feature, so this wouldn't support it, so you'll have to use :wq instead.
JdeBPan hour ago
Incorrect.
:x is a vi feature, that was introduced by Mary Ann Horton to actual Joy+Horton vi in February 1980.
* https://code.illumos.org/plugins/gitiles/illumos-gate/+/refs...
Ritter's vi is derived from Joy+Horton vi. Illumos has the original.
atsaloli2 hours ago
or ZZ to save and exit
alkyon39 minutes ago
Repeat ZZ to save & exit if there are more files to edit
ZQ - discard & exit
herodoturtle2 hours ago
28 years of vi and TIL about ZZ.
Thanks friend! ^_^
bbaron6317 minutes ago
ZZ is the first vi command I learned. After typing vi and only seeing a column of ~s, I asked how do I get out of this thing. Someone answered - ZZ.
mghackerladyan hour ago
I just learnt it the other day, as well. Granted, it was from chapter 1 of "Learning the vi and vim Text Editors" but shhh