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What is that even supposed to mean? I personnaly depend mostly on short keyboard delays. What editor it has to be isn't so relevant. Still, I see no advantage of using the vi-family to edit files. It's only a low-level standard for in a limited...

You really think your hand-crafted text editor would overthrow?

Overthrow inside the text-only UNIX sysadmin scene. Who called exaggeration?

I highly doubt that. You and I will both be dead long before Vi or Vim usage disappears. Unless you plan to argue against Vim from beyond the grave? ;) I probably agree. I think the highest skilled people just use vi/vim rather than discuss text...

Why are you throwing random things from behind a tree? This is the child corner of the camp. 😅

Just take the time to learn a dedicated desktop publishing package like the repeatedly recommended "Scribus" and you will be equipped not only for the present one, but also for future poster tasks. In my opinion, yes you can make a poster by...

The request was to make a poster for a medical conference. I’ve been making posters for medical conferences for almost 20 years. I’ve used Scribus for this multiple times. It’s not always the easiest to work with, but it will get the job done...

"Questionable" means no certainty.

That's even worse. I had a Youtube discussion with someone who does everything in Emacs. I asked why everything should happen in 1 window but I still don't know. It was known after reading the title, right? You are commenting to this old flame...

This one should be removed. The -w option is now given twice.

Where the variable type goes is not important these days. In the old days, you had single pass compilers which fit in some KB of memory. There it makes sense to not save the type from the beginning of the statement and apply it to all names seen...

You are either using FreeBSD or you are not. This isn't Linux.

Can / would you elaborate on this a little more? Because it seems you hit a nerve and now I'm very curious about this ;) (edit) To also stay a little bit ontopic here... I'm still using vi on almost a daily basis; and not just the editor...

I've got a stalker! I must be internet famous!

You are either using FreeBSD or you are not. This isn't Linux.

=> SHA256 Checksum OK for postfix/postfix-3.11.3.tar.gz. tar: Failed to set default locale What locale are you using? ===> postfix-3.11.3,1 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.12 - found pkg delete openssl I suspect you once...

Yes, just install security/tor, configure DNS server( for ex. local-unbound) and put this simple rules into /etc/pf.conf: ext_if="igb0" int_if="igb1" block all pass out quick on $int_if pass out quick on $ext_if nat-to $ext_if pass in quick on...

The alternative is to learn ~4 different IDEs for different platforms and languages? No thanks. Sure, Vi and Vim is outright weird for people having to learn it but that will carry on being the case into the future. Our great, great, great...

The makewhatis database searched by apropos (whatis) contains only the "NAME" section from each manual page, not the full page (see bold highlighted) : TCP(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual TCP(4) NAME tcp...

https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sh.html Use uname -U or uname -K.

What does this command output ? hwloc-ls Wine use hwloc to parse the cpu configuration

FYI: 595.80 and 610.43.02 just landed on latest branch of ports tree as commit ports e94bcef6b11d and commit ports fd3541282146 respectively.

Another thing to mention from drivers side would be that required libraries are correctly installed or not. x11/nvidia-driver would want graphics/libglvnd x11/libXext x11/libX11 graphics/egl-x11 graphics/egl-wayland2 graphics/egl-wayland...

I wanted something lightweight using either blink or gecko and maintained. That KDE does it, is OK, as long as it does not drop X11 support.

I wanted something lightweight using either blink or gecko and maintained. That KDE does it, is OK, as long as it does not drop X11 support.

Of course it is worth learning, the question is whether there is something more worth your learning time. If you already know one non-GUI editor well enough then I would say it is more important to learn -say- /bin/sh really well.

In situations like these you can always "go to the source", aka the man command itself. Try this: man -K hostcache. Will take longer, but it'll also find what you need. I don't have an explanation just yet, but whenever a search fails I always...

Hi, On a 14.3-RELEASE FreeBSD when I type apropos hostcache.list or whatis hostcache.list I get nothing appropriate and when I run man tcp | grep "hostcache.list" I get no result. When I open the man page with man tcp as search for...

Can / would you elaborate on this a little more? Because it seems you hit a nerve and now I'm very curious about this ;) (edit) To also stay a little bit ontopic here... I'm still using vi on almost a daily basis; and not just the editor...

Is Vi worth learning in 2000? Yes Is Vi worth learning in spaceyear 2083? Yes I think having threads like this is a good statement that decent software is timeless. Better still is that the alternatives often cited in these kinds of thread are...

It's 2026 now. Time to close this thread?

I will sheepishly admit OpenWRT forced me to learn vi. It doesn't hurt as bad now. Not including nano in base OpenWRT was the slap in the head I needed.

Each to their own, but I find vi quite efficient for the things it does. Not to mention that I think your comment is a little funny, because it makes me recall WordPerfect 5.1; that was also fully focused on keyboard shortcuts and sure enough...

I still think the problem is more with the X11 server than with the kmod. As another datapoint, even though the X11 server is up and running `nvidia-smi` does not report it as a process on the GPU.

MG your statement is both exaggeration while also pointing to the advantage of vi and why all professionals know and use it.

Can / would you elaborate on this a little more? Because it seems you hit a nerve and now I'm very curious about this ;) (edit) To also stay a little bit ontopic here... I'm still using vi on almost a daily basis; and not just the editor...

I found it amusing when the Reddit Moderator Guy tried to put in a PR to change the FreeBSD shell default editor to easy-editor from vi. I long ago learned a saying. Respect your elders. It's like people moving into the country and demand they...

The kmod pkgs were from pkg. I just recompiled them from ports but no change. It's latest pkg/ports. I'll try 612, but as I said, the old packages do work on the other install: linux-nvidia-libs-595.71.05 nvidia-driver-595.71.05...

Hi, On a 14.3-RELEASE FreeBSD when I type apropos hostcache.list or whatis hostcache.list I get nothing appropriate and when I run man tcp | grep "hostcache.list" I get no result. When I open the man page with man tcp as search for...

No doubt about it, but it's only an editor. I use it when there's nothing else. Last option because I prefer to see what I do immediately and the technical limitations that could make that a problem were common 40 years ago. If I was stuck with a...

I have a i5-8400H with Hyperthreading disabled in BIOS; OS and lscpu report 4 cores, dmesg reports 4, and htop/GUI task managers have 4 cores. World of Warcraft reports differently though in cpu.log (reports the same native Win10 and Wine...

And less hand movement while it's at it.

I was lying to you. The working install had a xorg.conf fragment: Section "Device" Identifier "NVIDIA Card" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" Driver "nvidia" EndSection However, no I get glx accelerated, but still no...

This 16-current installation doesn't like to start the X11 server with direct rendering, I get VESA instead. The same hardware with a different install does NVidia-drm just fine. Both FreeBSD installs have: linux-nvidia-libs nvidia-driver...

MG your statement is both exaggeration while also pointing to the advantage of vi and why all professionals know and use it.

Vi and Vim use curses. Its ed (or ex) that you would likely need to be using for your ancient 80x25 hardware terminal. The main use-case for efficient curses editors like Vi is via serial/tty (still common for servers). The baud rate is often...

I found it amusing when the Reddit Moderator Guy tried to put in a PR to change the FreeBSD shell default editor to easy-editor from vi. I long ago learned a saying. Respect your elders. It's like people moving into the country and demand they...

Back in the day when tcp/ip was uncommon, I used to carry around a program called "cpt" (copy-tree) for my contracting jobs as cp wasn't quite flexible enough. It also behaved differently based on the name it was called with; e.g. copy, move...

That's kind of the point. If you have curses, you don't need an editor with hidden states and 300 documented keyboard sequences to edit a line of text. I know better things to remember. The idea of vi in UNIX systems is to provide an editor that...

It's a matter of who is doing the work. The string functions in libc get SIMD enhancements paid for by the FreeBSD foundation so that they can catch up to Linux. What other libraries do you have in mind?