On Sat, February 3, 2018 4:28 pm, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > >> a good way to do it without adding verbiage would be to not document it! >> if it really is a crappy quirk, let's just leave it out then. > > I actually like that idea, it makes the long list of EX COMMANDS > a bit simpler, making the relevant stuff easier to find. > > Of course, we still have to say how to get out of split screen > mode when you stumble into it unintentionally - which esily > happens because the colon requires the shift key on many keyboards, > so accidentally hitting ":N" instead of ":n" is not uncommon. > > If people like the idea, i'll also fix up :exusage (unless people > want :exusage deleted, which i would of course prefer). > > OK? > Ingo >
Well this is kind of a bummer. I agree the documentation is inconsistent and confusing, but once I got past reading the man page, I was so excited to discover that I could get split screens in base vi without having to install vim with its extra baggage. I'm sad that a feature I use constantly will now become undocumented (if not removed) and hidden from other's who might find it valuable. Not to discourage your work. I'm not the one maintaining vi, and I can go crawling back to ports for nvi if I need to. Tim.
