if you’ve ever actually used Vee Eye, you’d throw your computer out the window

I have used vanilla VI on real Unices (i.e. pre-Linux and pre-Minix). In fact, that’s the VI I learned VI with.

The first “better VI” I used was Elvis. Then VIM of course. But here’s the thing: even decades later, I still consider their extended features niceties rather than essentials. In other words, I’m still very happy to run vanilla VI to this day. The only thing from VI of yore I can’t really stand anymore is HJKL: I kind of need the arrows, and the ability to move in edit mode.

How weird. I’ve always said “Ed” - like the name 🙂

lol

:se incsearch
:se hlsearch

then watch your regexes in action in real-time when you search or search/replace stuff.

It’s nothing groundbreaking but I literally couldn’t live without those two options.

Vim has been with me all my adult life. I can’t imagine using a computer without installing vim at one point or another. It’s like an old Swiss army knife you can’t live without.

Come to think of it, this man has had a lot more impact on my life than almost anybody else and I didn’t even realize it.

Thank you Bram.

“jjjkkkkhhhllll”

You know, I’ve been using VI for 30+ years and I always hated hjkl. I use them when I have to, but basically I need arrows to move around. I can’t stand dropping out of insert mode to move the cursor, and the muscle memory drives me nuts. But hjkl is nice to have as a backup when nothing else works.