From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] screen editors
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 07:37:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200118153725.GD28686@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2OjzTtsXrKAhW0EcSRk_CS2OP39nvMgmsEbSOe03dDBMA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 10:13:45PM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 9:35 PM Michael Parson <mparson@bl.org> wrote:
>
> > It's like 99% compatible.
>
> Exactly... As my old (non-PC) 10th-grade calculus teacher used to say,
> "I'll give you partial credit when you can bring be me a female that is
> partially pregnant."
>
> To be you are either compatible or not. I would have been ok to have had
> an option that you could turn on that gave you new behavior (but make the
> user turn it on thank you).
It's rare event when I disagree with you, Clem (sometimes it seems like
we were separated at birth :) If it was compat by default then you
wouldn't learn any of the new stuff.
set compatible
isn't that hard but we'd have to read docs to find that.
Anyhoo, cross reference to Ted's thought that Linux didn't have to
deal with the Gods of BSD so they could rip stuff out and try again,
his point is that worked better than the BSD way. Compat is fine
but if you want progress, sometimes you break compat.
For me, I've got a .exrc that I've been carrying around for decades
(has maps in it for some compat bindings to an editor I used on CP/M,
it's _that_ old) and vim is perfectly happy with it.
I mostly use vim as a vi compat but I regularly use 2 panes, that's
super useful. It's progress and you can have compat mode easily,
seems like a win.
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Thread overview: 117+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-08 9:46 Rudi Blom
2020-01-08 14:15 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-08 15:15 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-08 15:42 ` Steve Mynott
[not found] ` <68b3d6df-94f6-625d-39bf-6149b4c177c9@andrewnesbit.org>
2020-01-08 20:56 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-08 23:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-09 0:08 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-09 1:28 ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-09 1:40 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-09 2:04 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-09 2:07 ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-09 2:12 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-09 2:59 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-09 3:08 ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-09 3:43 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-09 3:27 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-01-09 3:34 ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-09 3:49 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-09 3:55 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-01-09 5:27 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-09 4:23 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-09 15:54 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-09 17:21 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-09 17:30 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-09 17:45 ` [TUHS] screen editors and beyond Jon Steinhart
2020-01-09 17:56 ` [TUHS] screen editors Bakul Shah
2020-01-18 2:11 ` Michael Parson
2020-01-09 18:53 ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-09 19:01 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-09 19:02 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-09 19:19 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-09 20:20 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-01-18 2:06 ` Michael Parson
2020-01-18 3:13 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-18 3:44 ` Kurt H Maier
2020-01-18 15:37 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2020-01-18 22:11 ` markus schnalke
2020-01-09 2:14 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-09 2:48 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-09 9:05 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-08 15:11 ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-01-08 15:37 ` Henry Bent
2020-01-18 14:22 ` Michael Parson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-01-26 20:32 [TUHS] Screen editors Paul Ruizendaal
2020-01-26 23:14 ` Thomas Paulsen
[not found] <20200120155946.169b39e0.ref@sagittariusa.cnb.csic.es>
2020-01-20 14:59 ` Jose R. Valverde via TUHS
2020-01-20 16:07 ` Toby Thain
2020-01-20 16:20 ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-31 18:21 ` Jose R. Valverde via TUHS
2020-01-29 22:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-29 22:33 ` Larry McVoy
2020-02-07 23:05 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-02-07 23:54 ` Richard Salz
2020-02-08 3:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-02-08 3:38 ` Ronald Natalie
2020-02-08 0:05 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-29 23:00 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-26 18:28 ` arnold
2020-01-26 18:33 ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-26 18:36 ` arnold
2020-01-26 18:40 ` arnold
2020-01-26 19:11 ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-26 19:40 ` Jon Forrest
2020-01-26 20:08 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-09 21:46 [TUHS] screen editors Norman Wilson
2020-01-09 22:10 ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-08 7:39 Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-08 15:58 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-01-08 23:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-09 1:43 ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-01-08 21:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-08 22:01 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-17 23:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-18 0:07 ` Ryan Casalino
2020-01-18 23:02 ` greg travis
2020-01-10 8:13 ` markus schnalke
2020-01-10 8:17 ` U'll Be King of the Stars
2020-01-11 19:58 ` markus schnalke
2020-01-11 20:54 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-01-11 21:27 ` Henry Bent
2020-02-04 8:40 ` Sijmen J. Mulder
2020-01-10 15:31 ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-01-10 16:04 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-10 17:10 ` Dan Cross
2020-01-10 17:18 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-01-18 1:55 ` Michael Parson
2020-01-10 15:58 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-07 19:57 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-07 20:17 ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-07 20:47 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-07 2:31 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-07 2:37 ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-07 2:38 ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-07 16:30 ` arnold
2020-01-07 16:38 ` Richard Salz
2020-01-07 18:32 ` Dan Cross
2020-01-07 19:14 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-09 5:01 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-01-10 8:16 ` ricercar
2020-01-08 0:10 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-17 22:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-08 18:30 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-01-08 21:41 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-09 8:30 ` arnold
2020-01-07 6:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-07 8:24 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-07 20:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-08 15:29 ` Steve Mynott
2020-01-08 23:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-07 9:43 ` ullbeking
2020-01-07 14:53 ` Dan Cross
2020-01-07 19:35 ` Rodrigo G. López
2020-01-08 5:13 ` Mark van Atten
2020-01-07 15:03 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-07 15:50 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-07 20:45 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-07 21:20 ` Derek Fawcus
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