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On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 09:42:32PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 8:15???PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> I've used vim for a very long time, super grateful for Bram's work.  Vim
> > has all of the usefulness of vi and then tossed in buffers so vi wasn't
> > worse than emacs, I doubt I've used 10% of the stuff that he added to
> > vim.
> 
> 
> I doubt if anyone has, with the possible exception of Bram himself.  Vim's
> UI is the very model of a non-compact interface.

Not gonna engage.  I got a lot of usefulness from vim in the last 30 years,
it's been my editor of choice.  I'm grateful for it, it was better than I
could have done.
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Larry McVoy           Retired to fishing          http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat