On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 10:45:08 AM UTC+12, Gregory Ewing wrote: > > Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > >> But not vi/vim. It only lets you place your cursor *on* a character, not >> *in-between* characters. > > That's because the terminals it was designed to work on > didn't have any way of displaying a cursor between two > characters.
That’s a dumb excuse. I’ve been using full-screen editors since 1979, on VT52 and later VT100 and then VT220 terminals, until text-mode terminals became obsolete. They all worked the way Emacs does, and vi does not. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
