12 Nov
2017
12 Nov
'17
4:24 p.m.
nvi does multiple horizontal windows too (I don’t use vim much to know if it can split
windows vertically). The Rand editor allowed you to split any windows vertically or
horizontally. [I didn’t “move” to vim as it did arbitrary undo/redo incompatibly with nvi.
I had asked Moolenaar a long time ago if he would provide an option to enable the nvi
undo/redo behavior but he wasn’t interested. As a touch-mistypist this is an important
feature for me :-)]
On Nov 12, 2017, at 7:10 AM, Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
Huh, that's news to me. The multiple window stuff is what moved me to
vim, been happy there ever since.
If we're talking editors, I still have a hacked version of xvi that I
wacked to use mmap instead of read. I wacked the string library to
treat \n as NULL (it honored both, it had to, too much would need to
be changed if you didn't) and then wacked the code to just mmap the
file instead of reading it into a pile of strings.
I needed this because I was looking at long trace files from debugging
the kernel and I really wanted to be able to vi them. On an 8MB Sun
I could look at about a 7MB file and have it all fit in memory. The
old way only could do half that.
On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 03:01:51PM +0000, Ralph
Corderoy wrote:
Hi Bakul,
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IIRC, Bill Joy???s vi didn???t do multiple
windows.
His personal version did, but the changes, to curses too IIRC, were lost
due to some fault and no backup. He didn't re-do them.
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Cheers, Ralph.
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