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Questions about the history of Vi. DO NOT use this for command history.

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Vi and Vim default to split left and split above. What is the history and motivation behind ...

When a window is split, given that Vi/Vim splits are not stored in a tree structure, the "direction of the split" is basically "the window in which the cursor is placed after the command". Update 2018 …
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