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0 pointswolverine8762y ago0 comments

Vim was heavily based on vi, and vi was designed for limited terminal capacities.

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viraptor2y ago· 1 in thread

And it's now been decades since vi itself, where things would've changed many times if that was the only reason that vi was modal.

Things have changed, just not the paradigm that vim operates on.

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