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..
JdeBP 36 minutes ago [-]
I was just talking about a fun and largely forgotten feature of Joy+Horton vi elsewhere.
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.
mghackerlady 48 minutes ago [-]
I wish elvis was still around. I don't want everything vim has but I like syntax highlighting and other conveniences
Tangentially related, I wish more websites and blogs looked like this now. It's elegant and modern but simple.
himata4113 3 hours ago [-]
Lacks centering, other than that I also found it enjoyable to look at.
christophilus 3 hours ago [-]
To me, the justified text makes it an effortful read.
Gualdrapo 2 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
nosioptar 1 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.
kps 52 minutes ago [-]
Chrome's too, but why? It's just plain HTML.
heftig 27 minutes 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:
Of course when I got onto the BSD VAX, someone set me straight and it was Emacs from there on..
* 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.
* https://jdebp.uk/FGA/vi-family.html#elvis (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132452)
Looks like dog shit on mobile.
I agree that this general style is good, just without some of this page's fuckups.
"Gunnar Ritter <gunnarr@acm.org> 2007-11-29"
Just give me basic vi, or a complete editor
https://github.com/n-t-roff/heirloom-ex-vi/
: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.
ZQ - discard & exit
Thanks friend! ^_^