Re: Useless Use Of Regexes

On 4/8/25 9:16 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:39:47 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
 

The only time I've had to use vi command history editing was with some
old version of VxWorks. It was the only kind included by default. I
ended up teaching some colleagues on how to edit the command line, vi
style.

 Seems a bit dumb, having to go into insert mode every time you actually
want to type a command.

   It's terrible - and was obsolete already by 1985.
   NANO folks !
   Shit, I wrote a near-equiv for DOS, in '85, in
   MASM.
   I actually DELETE/rename all the 'vi' variants so
   they can't accidentally come up .....