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wolverine876
2y ago
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Vim was heavily based on vi, and vi was designed for limited terminal capacities.
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viraptor
2y ago
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.
ilaksh
2y ago
Things have changed, just not the paradigm that vim operates on.
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