| ▲ | The Traditional Vi(ex-vi.sourceforge.net) |
| 50 points by exvi 7 hours ago | 34 comments |
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| ▲ | JdeBP 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I was just talking about a fun and largely forgotten feature of Joy+Horton vi elsewhere. * https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116793159030149624 You can see it here in Ritter vi on lines 83 et seq. of ex_vis.h . vi actually has three flavours of its 'open' mode, for cursor addressable video terminals, non-cursor addressable video terminals, and actual paper terminals. There's an as-yet unfilled niche for the retrocomputeristas with genuine ADM-3s or (as someone pointed out) TI Silent 703s and suchlike to do a YouTube video showing Joy+Horton vi in its 3 open modes. |
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| ▲ | imglorp 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| As an undergrad around 1984 I stumbled on some AT&T 3B2's in the computer lab and started to play. Knowing nothing of Unix (would have been ~ SVR3.x), I asked for help and the TA said something like "read the fine manual" as was customary. So I started off with "man something" and off we went, ending up at "man 1 vi", the glorious, pure original, none of this vim stuff... Of course when I got onto the BSD VAX, someone set me straight and it was Emacs from there on.. |
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| ▲ | GaryBluto 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Tangentially related, I wish more websites and blogs looked like this now. It's elegant and modern but simple. |
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| ▲ | voidUpdate 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I wish it took up more than 640 pixels on the left of my 1920 pixel screen. I changed the CSS of the body to be 900pt instead of 480, and it renders at 1200px wide, which looks a lot nicer to my eyes. Didn't bother trying to center it though, which would have improved it even more | |
| ▲ | himata4113 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Lacks centering, other than that I also found it enjoyable to look at. | | |
| ▲ | deadbabe an hour ago | parent [-] | | That’s a feature. It lets your thumb scroll comfortably in a larger blank area so the content is always in view for you. There is no reason for things to be centered, it does not aid readability. | | |
| ▲ | lunar_rover 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | This only works on large enough tablets. On phones the page isn't readable without a 3x zoom. | |
| ▲ | himata4113 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not a feature on a 32inch ultrawide. | | |
| ▲ | deadbabe an hour ago | parent [-] | | Use smaller window | | |
| ▲ | zamadatix 5 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Use phone horizontally. Much more practically, the best designs are the ones who don't demand of the user they be consumed in a single form across every scenario. |
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| ▲ | christophilus 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | To me, the justified text makes it an effortful read. | | |
| ▲ | Gualdrapo 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yup, I hope every one agrees to leave proper justified text to LaTeX/ConTeXt/Typst/<your_favorite_typesetting_software>, doing such thing for HTML is still ugly and makes things harder to read |
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| ▲ | nosioptar 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Breaks Firefox's reader mode. Looks like dog shit on mobile. I agree that this general style is good, just without some of this page's fuckups. | | |
| ▲ | kps 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Chrome's too, but why? It's just plain HTML. | | |
| ▲ | heftig 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Mobile browsers are assuming you're looking at a legacy page optimized for desktops (widescreen) and have a relatively large virtual screen size by default. They expect you to manually zoom in as necessary. Adding this helps: <meta name="viewport" content="width=640, initial-scale=1">
This matches the max-width specified by the CSS. However, a smaller viewport width might be appropriate to increase the text size on mobile. | |
| ▲ | chorizo 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Safari reader mode on mobile works great. But then again, this is a site where you should not need it. |
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| ▲ | senthil_rajasek 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A 2007 article from sourceforge.net and it's not even throwback Thursday. "Gunnar Ritter <gunnarr@acm.org> 2007-11-29" |
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| ▲ | herodoturtle 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's been years since I heard the term "Throwback Thursday", funny that reading it here felt like a throwback in its own right ^_^ | | |
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| ▲ | mghackerlady 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I wish elvis was still around. I don't want everything vim has but I like syntax highlighting and other conveniences |
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| ▲ | jbverschoor 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| vim with mouse frustrates the hell out of me. Just give me basic vi, or a complete editor |
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| ▲ | haunter 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Github mirror + some bugfixes https://github.com/n-t-roff/heirloom-ex-vi/ |
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| ▲ | fragmede 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| :x is a vim feature, so this wouldn't support it, so you'll have to use :wq instead. |
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| ▲ | mikejulietbravo 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| text editors 5ever |
