Where Vim Came From
Vim’s idiosyncrasies seem too arbitrary to have been made up, but then where did they come from?
The answer, as is so often the case, begins with that ancient crucible of computing, Bell Labs. In some sense, Vim is only the latest iteration of a piece of software—call it the “wq text editor”—that has been continuously developed and improved since the dawn of the Unix epoch.
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