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Traditional Ex - Vi editor mentions (9)

• Vim, infamous for its steep learning curve, often leaves new users confused where to start. Today is the 10th anniversary of the infamous "How do I exit Vim" question, which made news when it first hit 1 million views.

  The traditional vi is still available. I have it on my Fedora system. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Arch Linux turned 20 years old today. It was released on 11/March/2002

  Is the current version of Vi older than GNU Emacs? Pacman links to this page which states the software was made an 76 and adopted an open source license in 2002. Source: about 2 years ago

• What's the tangible difference between Vi and Vim?

  I installed ex-vi on my computer, and it created vi as a symbolic link to the ex program that it installed. See man vi on your computer; you might find some more information about which vi you have. After having installed ex-vi, I see the following in man vi on my computer:. Source: about 2 years ago

• What's the tangible difference between Vi and Vim?

  Unlike many GNU distributions, it looks the distribution you are using does not install vim-tiny as vi; instead it seems to have either Keith Bostic's implementation of vi, called nvi)[https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/vi/], or the real vi (at least, the closest to the real vi that Bill Joy wrote). Source: about 2 years ago

• What's the tangible difference between Vi and Vim?

  As NilsLandt said, you probably did not use vi on these machines, you can compile it for comparison, the source used for Arch Linux is here http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/. Source: about 2 years ago

GNU Emacs mentions (6)

• Emacs daemon as sytemd service in debian 12 (gnome)

  Cat .config/systemd/user/default.target.wants/emacs.service [Unit] Description=Emacs text editor Documentation=info:emacs man:emacs(1) https://gnu.org/software/emacs/ [Service] Type=notify ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/emacs --fg-daemon # Emacs will exit with status 15 after having received SIGTERM, which # is the default "KillSignal" value systemd uses to stop services. SuccessExitStatus=15 # The location of the... Source: 10 months ago

• Why does emacs exec path variable not just copy the users path variable?

  ## If your Emacs is installed in a non-standard location, you may need ## to copy this file to a standard directory, eg ~/.config/systemd/user/ . ## If you install this file by hand, change the "Exec" lines below ## to use absolute file names for the executables. [Unit] Description=Emacs text editor Documentation=info:emacs man:emacs(1)... Source: over 1 year ago

• Hi DM's, what medium do you use to organise your campaign?

  For gathering notes, writing and organizing, Org-Roam which implies Org and Emacs. Source: over 1 year ago

• This Guy is getting out of control at this point.

  I was heading to gnu.org/software/emacs to prove my point and it said:. Source: over 2 years ago

• opam doesn't see emacs?

  <><> Version-specific details <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 🐫 Version 1 Repository default Homepage: "http://gnu.org/software/emacs" Bug-reports: "https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/issues" Authors: "anil@recoil.org" Maintainer: "anil@recoil.org" License: "GPL-1.0-or-later" Flags: conf Synopsis Virtual package to install the Emacs editor Description This... Source: over 2 years ago