VulcanSphere@kbin.social to Technology@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agoRIP Bram Moolenaar, the author of vim text editorgroups.google.comexternal-linkmessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1996arrow-down113file-textcross-posted to: linux@lemmy.mltechnology@beehaw.orglinux@lemmy.mlopensource@lemmy.mlhackernews@derp.foofoss@beehaw.org
arrow-up1983arrow-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.mltechnology@beehaw.orglinux@lemmy.mlopensource@lemmy.mlhackernews@derp.foofoss@beehaw.org
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