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[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I suppose we could point to emacs for formatting and syntax highlighting

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Plus an electric list is far superior to tabs. Tabs are too usable. I want to have to hit ctrl+X, L before I can change files.

/s just in case.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, vim also has it today, but I don't know how far back that goes. Screen splitting, too, I use that all the time in vim and GUI editors.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

We didn't have color terminals at my college so if there was any highlighting I wouldn't have seen it. Probably shortly after the first dumb terminals came with color text somebody made emacs or vi do highlighting? Screen splitting goes way back. Emacs had that in the late 80s when I was using it.