On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 5:19 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:


> There was also the client we had in PNG, where access was via a flakey
> 1200 modem i.e. no error correction, and VI was out of the question.
>

The old 'o' command (which does the same as 'vi' in vim) was designed for
that situation, provided your terminal isn't a printing one.  A one-line
window is cheap enough; backspace and carriage-return give you
everything you need.



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