Bad news on your rosy world view, but the real reason for our penitentiary system is to create slave labor.

Absolutely great work. Never would have even considered a steno.

I’m just a hair too young to have dealt with gopher in any meaningful way, I went from bbs days to the web. The changes happened while I was in the military and I heard people talk about the web. Thought it was just bbs with some new terms. Played with gopher and Archie, Jughead, and Veronica after I got far enough in to understand the net just to see what else existed. Really cool to get some historical context on this stuff.

Async, so a few things don’t block. If you have a plugging manager that updates, you can work while it does its thing. Clipboard is set up by default. The big thing was the code itself was refractored so more than just Bram can work on it.

It’s built into neovim now I think.

The way I got into using more advanced stuff was https://archive.org/details/viimprovedvim0000oual But other good things are https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=develop.example.beta1139.vimmaster and just reading the docs.

Stack overflow has people ask how do I X with vim, and pretty consistently you’ll discover some new way to do things.

Basically, if you find yourself doing something often, expect that someone else did in the post and made a better way in vim.

Here is a good one to start with. https://medium.com/usevim/vim-101-virtual-editing-661c99c05847

Good to see a bit of action here on something vim related.