[Tutor] Correct style of line break when chaining methods

Mats Wichmann mats at wichmann.us
Fri Jul 16 18:01:12 EDT 2021


On 7/16/21 3:55 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> On 16/07/2021 22:43, Mats Wichmann wrote:

>> this is all a VERY long time ago.  the development of a
>> screen-addressable editor (vi, which started life as an extension mode
>> to ex)
> 
> And contrary to popular opinion vi does not really use curses,
> rather it uses termcap (and now terminfo), the raw terminal
> control codes. There is, so far as I can tell, no actual
> curses specific code in vi. It does include curses but never
> enters curses mode, it just uses the termcap/info control
> definitions.

I don't know about vim, which is a rewrite I've never poked at the code 
for, but for the original vi, definitely true - curses grew out of the 
learnings from building vi, but it wasn't pulled back into vi.



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