[TUHS] screen editors

[Bakul Shah]

Early in vim’s life I had emailed Moolenaar asking him if he would be
willing to add an option for nvi like behavior for undo/redo. He wasn’t
interested so I lost interest. nvi’s u & . behavior is not only quite clever
but also  much more intuitive and you don’t have to press the ctl key!

> On Jan 8, 2020, at 6:12 PM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
> 
> make a new command, don't break the old one....  maybe offer a way to map the new one over the old -- but don't make it the default.
> and my lawn was lush and green before the snow came ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:07 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 09:04:46PM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 8:41 PM Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > The first thing I do on a new machine is to install nvi. Very grateful to
> > > Keith Bostic for implementing it. I do use multiple windows ??? only
> > > horizontal splits but that is good enough for me as all my terminal
> > > windows are 80 chars wide. Not a vim hater but never saw the need.
> > 
> > I pretty much do the same thing. I think what I hate about vim is that it's
> > almost, vi but not the same. My fingers screw up when I use it.  For
> > instance, he 'fixed' undo.   
> 
> Holy crap Clem, you need to embrace that.  His undo goes back forever.
> And you can undo the undo and go forward forever.  
> 
> Not liking that puts you in the "get off my lawn" old guy camp.  Which
> is fine if that's who you want to be (sometimes I'm that guy).