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		wolverine876 on Jan 16, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Modeless Vim Vim was heavily based on vi, and vi was designed for limited terminal capacities.

viraptor on Jan 16, 2024 [–]

And it's now been decades since vi itself, where things would've changed many times if that was the only reason that vi was modal.

ilaksh on Jan 16, 2024 | [–]

Things have changed, just not the paradigm that vim operates on.

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