[TUHS] screen editors

[Kurt H Maier]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 10:13:45PM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 9:35 PM Michael Parson <mparson at bl.org> wrote:
> 
> > It's like 99% compatible.
> 
> Exactly...  As my old (non-PC) 10th-grade calculus teacher used to say,
> "I'll give you partial credit when you can bring be me a female that is
> partially pregnant."
> 
> To be you are either compatible or not.  I would have been ok to have had
> an option that you could turn on that gave you new behavior (but make the
> user turn it on thank you).
> 
> BTW:  the cX command's behavior I also find annoying visually, but it does
> not screw up 30-40 years of programming in my fingers.

There was a time when, by default, vim started in 'compatible' mode, in
which u didn't ignore u, so you got the toggle-style undo.  Compatible
mode also keeps the ol$ style of c representation, and so forth.  You
can still force this by making a ~/.vimrc file that just contains

set compatible

I don't remember when vim stopped launching in compatible mode by
default, but that was basically when I stopped using it.  I only figured
out how to force it back because it's on all the linux computers I run
into at work.

As I recall, the 'set compatible' command is shorthand to set all the
vi-compatibility flags by default; it is possible to set them
individually as well.  So your proposal is (was?) at least implemented,
if not in a very useful manner.

khm