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Questions about the history of Vi. DO NOT use this for command history.
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What are the advantages of using colon for commands instead of semicolon?
You know the story behind the hjkl keys in Vi? Well, : was unshifted on Vi author's ADM-3A terminal.
No idea if that's the real explanation in this particular case, but it seems at least as plausibl …
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What is the rationale for \r and \n meaning different things in s command?
A NUL byte is a string terminator in C, and for this reason Vim uses this convention, described in the manual at :h NL-used-for-Nul:
<Nul> characters in the file are stored as <NL> in memory. In …
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