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RIP Bram Moolenaar, the author of vim text editor (groups.google.com)
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[โ€“] twistypencil@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically, that is not vim specific, conning from sed and ed, but definitely worked in vim as well as all vi clones

[โ€“] chinpokomon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This is why it works so well. It's also one of the reasons I prefer vi over other text editors. It isn't always the most logical which commands and keys do what, but I like the consistency.