[Toybox] [PATCH] vi.c: Backspace to merge lines when at beginning, get_endline is no more, cleanup

David Seikel onefang_toybox at dave.isageek.net
Fri Mar 8 01:32:03 PST 2024


On 2024-03-08 10:47:10, Jarno Mäkipää wrote:
> I was not that interested on ex, and I think Rob said ex is obsolete
> and not on his roadmap. But yes some of ex commands are just vi normal
> mode commands, with special addressing. If someone needs them, I think
> first thing to do is implement better ex command parsing and
> dispatching, original version was intended only to parse write and
> quit commands. (the 90% vi user case, rest of 9% not knowing how to
> quit and 1% needing something else)

The one command I have memorised for vi and family is how to quit if I
accidently end up in it.  That command is -

killall -TERM vi

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