Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor

On Tue, 20 May 2025 14:35:08 -0600, Jeff Barnett wrote:

On 5/20/2025 1:25 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 20 May 2025 07:54:59 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

     Microsoft also wanted to avoid the “how do I exit vim?” meme, so
     it built its own text editor instead of relying on other
     available options.

 
I'll admit I wondered how to exit vim, or the original vi to be
specific,
but that was 45 years or so ago.

In the early 1980s (approximately when you were trapped in the vim maze)
an excited colleague told me I just had to try out some new version of
EMACS running on our PDP10 farm at ISI - I had been using some other
editor. I was having some fun figuring out a few simple commands; then I
tried to exit: ctr x, ctr q, etc. After 15 minutes I screamed for help.
I avoided EMACS after that until a few years latter when I was using the
grown up adult version integrated into the Symbolics Lisp Machine's
development environment. Life had changed for the good.

while I use gVim because it spawns a separate window I very rarely use the
menu options. I've seldom used it but the first time I encountered EMACS
with a GUI and menus rather than obscure commands requiring more fingers
than a polydactyl cat it was almost usable. Almost.

The real killer back when 4 GB was a huge hard drive was EMACS took about
10 times more space than Vim to install. Of course, Vim doesn't tell
fortunes, but that is what 'fortune' is for.