tofro wrote: Mon Sep 15, 2025 7:54 am
Even today, most of the vi commands have left their traces in muscle memory.
I’m using QED on the QL and I still keep trying to use vi keystrokes even though I haven’t really used it since the early 00’s
I used to have a colleague whose text files sporadically had an arbitrary "ZZ" at the end for no apparent reason
When writing in Welsh, I suffer from Double Consonant-itis - I can never remember where there are double n's and double r's in words like "torri" or "annwyl".
A work colleague used to tell me off for getting it wrong. So I shut him up by adding a few extra r's and n's to the bottom of emails, with the message in Welsh "a few spare rrrrr and nnnnn for you to copy and paste to where I got it wrong."
NormanDunbar wrote: Mon Sep 15, 2025 7:29 am
EMACS?
Micro_EMACS?
I feel the urge to port Vi/Vim to the QL!
I remember using Micro_EMACS on a QL with Trump Card and floppies way back in the very early 1990s, maybe late 1980s, and it was an evil bugger to get to grips with. I stopped using it shortly afterwards. It just didn't work for me. Years later, at work, I had to use Vi, so that's the side of that religious argument that I'm on.
However, the best editor for the QL is whichever one helps you get the task done most efficiently and without getting in your way. My own editor these days is VSCode or Sublime Text (paid for!) On Linux, then uploaded to QPC2. Works for everything except QL non standard characters like copyright, Euro and arrow key characters.
Cheers,
Norm. (Posting from outside the supermarket until we get broadband!)
NormanDunbar wrote: Mon Sep 15, 2025 7:29 am
EMACS?
Micro_EMACS?
I feel the urge to port Vi/Vim to the QL!
...
Cheers,
Norm. (Posting from outside the supermarket until we get broadband!)
NOOO!
I have to use vi a fair bit at work - and I have to say I hate it. It's similar enough to Xedit which I used to use on IBM Mainframes - but annoyingly different in the places that matter.
Now if someone would port Xedit... (We already have REXX apparently)
