VulcanSphere@kbin.social to Technology@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agoRIP Bram Moolenaar, the author of vim text editorgroups.google.comexternal-linkmessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1874arrow-down116file-textcross-posted to: vim@lemmy.sdf.orglinux@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.orgtech@kbin.sociallinux@kbin.socialneovim@programming.devneovim@sopuli.xyzvim@lemmy.sdf.orglinux@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1858arrow-down1external-linkRIP Bram Moolenaar, the author of vim text editorgroups.google.comVulcanSphere@kbin.social to Technology@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agomessage-square46fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: vim@lemmy.sdf.orglinux@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.orgtech@kbin.sociallinux@kbin.socialneovim@programming.devneovim@sopuli.xyzvim@lemmy.sdf.orglinux@lemmy.ml
minus-squarelontong@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up31·1 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