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The ways in which we interact with computers has changed dramatically over the decades. From flipping switches on the control panels of room-sized computers, to punching holes into cards, to …read more Continue reading On Vim, Modal Interfaces and the Way We Interact With Computers
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Bram Moolenaar, aged 62, passed away from a medical condition that rapidly progressed over the last few weeks.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bram Moolenaar, Creator of Vim Text Editor for Linux Passes Away
Continue reading Bram Moolenaar, Creator of Vim Text Editor for Linux Passes Away
Vim is the greatest or the worst text editor of all time, depending on the tribe you’re in. Either way, members of both camps can appreciate this build from [Chris …read more Continue reading Footpedal Ups Vim Productivity, Brings Ergonomic Benefits
In the Security News, the rise of purple teaming, the World’s largest beer brewer sets up a Cyber-security team, a mystery signal shutting down key fobs in an Ohio neighborhood, why hackers ignore most security flaws, and warnings of real wor… Continue reading Grim, Vim, & Neovim – Paul’s Security Weekly #608
Diehard text editor users everywhere breathed a sigh of relief this week as the open source community fixed a bug in one of the most venerable *nix programs: Vim. Continue reading Vim devs fix system-pwning text editor bug
A bug impacting editors Vim and Neovim could allow a trojan code to escape sandbox mitigations. Continue reading Linux Command-Line Editors Vulnerable to High-Severity Bug
Linux users, beware!
If you haven’t recently updated your Linux operating system, especially the command-line text editor utility, do not even try to view the content of a file using Vim or Neovim.
Security researcher Armin Razmjou recently discovere… Continue reading Your Linux Can Get Hacked Just by Opening a File in Vim or Neovim Editor
Security risk in extensible text editors enable hackers to abuse plugins and escalate privileges. Continue reading Researchers Show How Popular Text Editors Can Be Attacked Via Third-Party Plugins
Linux users–including the ones at the Hackaday underground bunker–tend to fall into two groups: those that use vi and those that use emacs. We aren’t going to open that debate up again, but we couldn’t help but notice a new item on GitHub that potentially negates one of the biggest complaints non-vi users have, at least for vim which is the most common variant of vi in use on most modern systems. The vim keybinding makes vim behave like a “normal” editor (and to forestall flames, that’s a quote from the project page).
Normally vi starts out in a command …read more
As a rule, I try hard not to get sucked into religious wars. You know, Coke vs Pepsi. C++ vs Java. Chrome vs Firefox. There are two I can’t help but jump into: PC vs Mac (although, now that Mac has turned into Unix, that’s almost more habit than anything else) and–the big one–Emacs vs vi.
If you use Linux, Unix, or anything similar, you are probably at least aware of the violence surrounding this argument. Windows users aren’t immune, although fewer of them know the details. If you aren’t familiar with these two programs, they are–in a way–text editors. …read more
