* 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.
My favorite features are the ranges on the commands (like substitute or delete), piping the buffer into the bottomless utility of the classic UNIX command line, and the . do again command.
About the only vim feature I use today is being able to navigate while entering text, but even after all this time, that is not automatic to me.
I have used syntax coloring a couple of times, I find it particularly useful for XML, especially XML with chunks of XML commented out.
Of course when I got onto the BSD VAX, someone set me straight and it was Emacs from there on..
"Gunnar Ritter <gunnarr@acm.org> 2007-11-29"
Just give me basic vi, or a complete editor
