From: g@nowhere.invalid   
      
   Janis Papanagnou  wrote:   
   > On 08.03.2024 11:30, G wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Personally, as I use vim mostly for programming, the best feature is the   
   >> ability to compile from inside vim and then automatically go to the errors   
   >> to correct them.   
   >   
   > Please correct me if I am wrong but I seem to recall that I've done that   
   > with Vi already in the 1990's (before I got my hands on a Vim).  (Faint   
   > memories suggest that there were three commands supporting the edit,   
   > compile, fix cycle in Vi. Don't know whether Vim still use these or whether   
   > it has extended them.)   
   >   
      
   I don't know, I discovered this after I started using vim so I never used it   
   in vi. I remember you could execute an external prog from vi (":!prog" maybe)   
   so you could do that with "make", I suppose, but I never used makefiles.   
      
   G   
      
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