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378 points Fluffyrnz | 4 comments | 27 Aug 25 15:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.719s | source
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chasil ◴[27 Aug 25 20:13 UTC] No.45044585[source]▶
I really don't want to learn much more of vi than is documented in the POSIX standard:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/

I'm in busybox and on OpenBSD quite a bit, and all the vim embellishments would be a clutter of my neurons.

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1. jnwatson ◴[27 Aug 25 20:28 UTC] No.45044760[source]▶
Cool that you're into retrocomputing, but many of the rest of us think perhaps some features added to vim from the last 30 years might be useful.

That vi was standardized was one of the many failures of POSIX as an idea. The very idea that we should freeze a text editor for all time is silliness in the extreme.

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2. chasil ◴[27 Aug 25 20:41 UTC] No.45044949[source]▶
While you may be a detractor, Apple appears to be an ardent admirer.

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

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3. enneff ◴[27 Aug 25 23:42 UTC] No.45046656[source]▶
Yet they ship macOS with vim installed and zsh as the default shell.
4. JdeBP ◴[28 Aug 25 00:08 UTC] No.45046813[source]▶
Don't let on that OpenBSD does not have vi either. Its vi is actually nvi, yet another vi clone, that Keith Bostic derived from elvis.