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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] unix "awesome list"
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 06:48:28 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.999.1805090644560.79090@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180508172043.GB16384@mcvoy.com>

On Tue, 8 May 2018, Larry McVoy wrote:

> vim, on the other hand, oh do I love me some vim.  It's pretty faithful 
> to the original vi but you get split windows, infinite undo, it 
> remembers stuff from one invocation to the next, it's pretty sweet.

Oh, I love VIM too, but I wish it had an "idiot" mode i.e. ignore any 
fumbled keys that did something strange and how do I get out of here 
because suddenly I see two windows when I meant to simply quit...

-- 
Dave Horsfall BSc DTM (VK2KFU) -- FuglySoft -- Gosford IT -- Unix/C/Perl (AbW)
People who fail to / understand security / surely will suffer. (tks: RichardM)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-08 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-07 18:22 A. P. Garcia
2018-05-07 21:10 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-07 21:53   ` Steve Johnson
2018-05-08 12:24     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-08 13:51       ` Bakul Shah
2018-05-08 14:53         ` Clem Cole
2018-05-08 15:23           ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-08 15:31           ` Steve Johnson
2018-05-08 16:32             ` Clem Cole
2018-05-08 17:33             ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-08 18:40             ` William Cheswick
2018-05-08 21:25             ` Bakul Shah
2018-05-08 23:06             ` [TUHS] (early parallel/concurrent computing) (was: unix "awesome list") Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-09  0:25               ` Ron Natalie
2018-05-09  1:28                 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-05-08 21:15           ` [TUHS] unix "awesome list" Bakul Shah
2018-05-08 16:31       ` Michael Parson
2018-05-08 17:20         ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-08 17:49           ` Michael Parson
2018-05-08 20:48           ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2018-05-08 17:53         ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-07 21:54   ` Steve Nickolas
2018-05-08  8:14     ` Mutiny
2018-05-07 22:34 ` Andy Kosela
2018-05-08 15:17 Noel Chiappa
2018-05-08 15:22 ` Warner Losh
2018-05-08 16:18 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-08 19:37   ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-08 19:54     ` Grant Taylor

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