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• regular Vim has lua?!

  Lua is quite small, encouraging distros to include it. The ubuntu gvim has, and the gvim AppImage linked from vim.org does. The default Makefile from github is set up to not include it, but you can uncomment one line there to get it. Source: about 1 year ago

• is there a way to make highlighted text persistent after quit when using something like [match Search /\%'.line('.').'l/] ?

  I've not used vimwiki locally (tho I'm old enough to remember the Vim wiki on vim.org :), but I think what you are wanting to do is extend vimwiki's syntax file. I presume it installs one at $VIMRUNTIM/syntax or or ~/.vim/syntax. If this sounds right, then create a ~/.vim/after/syntax/vimwiki.vim file and place your match command in there. Then everytime you open a vimwiki file it should apply your... Source: over 1 year ago

• vim.org - Is there a reason for this 1800s-esque design?

  Vim.org has 242k total visitors, tailwindcss.com has 4.4m, planetscale.com has 412k, jpl.nasa.gov has 2.6m, all built with Tailwind, all several years younger than Vim's website. Unnecessary comparison, unnecessary defence. It's a valuable tool, fine, but a complete disregard for anyone who doesn't love a crappy website and would like to navigate a website like a normal human is not something to be defended. Maybe... Source: over 1 year ago

• What is YOUR process of writing ?

  I write in Vim with some customizations in my vimrc to gear it more towards prose writing than code editing. It's not pretty, but Normal Mode and Ex commands are the most powerful text editing tools out there, so that means I spend less time on making corrections and other edits. Source: about 2 years ago

• Why developers need to know about Vim

  If you are open minded and would like to try it out, click me for more information! Cheers. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

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: over 1 year 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