Thursday, August 4, 2011

Re: A few questions about :append and ex

ranousse wrote:
> 1) If I understand right, :append is used this way
> :append
> line1
> line2
> .

:append is a relic (in the sense of something left behind) of line
editors for teletype terminals, from the 1960s, roughly qed begat ed
begat ex begat vi begat vim. IMHO of historical interest only.

Regards, John

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