VulcanSphere@kbin.social to Technology@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agoRIP Bram Moolenaar, the author of vim text editorgroups.google.comexternal-linkmessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1998arrow-down113file-textcross-posted to: linux@lemmy.mlopensource@lemmit.onlineleftistunix@lemmygrad.mltechnology@beehaw.orgtech@kbin.socialtext_editors@programming.devneovim@programming.devvim@lemmy.sdf.orglinux@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1985arrow-down1external-linkRIP Bram Moolenaar, the author of vim text editorgroups.google.comVulcanSphere@kbin.social to Technology@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agomessage-square62fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: linux@lemmy.mlopensource@lemmit.onlineleftistunix@lemmygrad.mltechnology@beehaw.orgtech@kbin.socialtext_editors@programming.devneovim@programming.devvim@lemmy.sdf.orglinux@lemmy.ml
minus-squarelontong@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up34·1 year ago The terminal he was using had arrows printed on those keys because it didn’t have dedicated arrow keys. That terminal was also responsible for ~ used as home dir in path and ^ as beginning of string in regex.
That terminal was also responsible for ~ used as home dir in path and ^ as beginning of string in regex.
Wow TIL