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bananicorn
on May 26, 2020
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Exiting VIM is hard; sometimes we need to take dra...
In all honesty, I think I had a harder time exiting ED (the standard editor), although vim and ED are quite similar in spirit ;)
YeGoblynQueenne
on May 26, 2020
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Well at least with vim you get to see the whole buffer you are editing. With ed all you see is... ?
bananicorn
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Hehe^^ Try: ,p or: ,n in ed and you'll print the whole file to the screen - although you'll be at the end of the file with everything that didn't fit on screen cut off.
I guess there's a reason why it's not around on modern systems anymore^^
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