New comment by gmmachine in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

gmmachine — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:07:04 +0000

I live for Old UNIX screenshots, you just made my day, my week, my month ... ok my year! Thanks!

I also love to collect old xpm icons from that era, and try and assemble arcane FVWM configs that weave them in.

Oh, NsCDE is a great start if anyone wants to emulate some of the Solaris screenshots in the collection.

http://www.typewritten.org/Media/Images/decwindows-ultrix4.5... <-- XV! I used that back in the day. Does anyone remember gv too? GhostView? Another great Motif application for pdf documents.

Reviewing the screenshots here, I realize profoundly that something about the idealism of the 1990s is baked into them; the 1990s a time before the bad vibes of commercialism mostly destroyed the interwebs.

New comment by gmmachine in "Undo in Vi and Its Successors"

gmmachine — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:44:02 +0000

Strange, I love GNU screen, and find the key combinations very easy and intuitive. However, I could never seem to master GNU's Emacs and what I find are very strange default key commands. I love vim for the reason of, what I personally find, very intuitive key combinations.

I just downloaded VSCode for the first time recently -- which I was delighted to find has a VIM mode. From what I read VSCode's VIM mode does not respect the undo tree of actual VIM.

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New comment by gmmachine in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

New comment by gmmachine in "Undo in Vi and Its Successors"