Installing NeoVim caused original Vim undo files to be deleted
“They had no concept of a duty of care to their users.” A Mastodon post by computer scientist David Chisnall has a very Unsung opener: I have used vim since around 2000. I have written five books, a PhD thesis, a few dozen papers and over 150 articles with it. At this point, my higher brain functions are not engaged at all when I use a bunch of common vim commands, they just happen.
- ▪“They had no concept of a duty of care to their users.” A Mastodon post by computer scientist David Chisnall has a very Unsung opener: I have used vim since around 2000.
- ▪I have written five books, a PhD thesis, a few dozen papers and over 150 articles with it.
- ▪At this point, my higher brain functions are not engaged at all when I use a bunch of common vim commands, they just happen.
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| Original publisher | Unsung |
| Canonical URL | https://unsung.aresluna.org/they-had-no-concept-of-a-duty-of-care-to-their-users/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:45:07 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-27T17:06:17.892Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-27T17:06:17.892Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | kIdfH4z4HBEa · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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“They had no concept of a duty of care to their users.” A Mastodon post by computer scientist David Chisnall has a very Unsung opener: I have used vim since around 2000. I have written five books, a PhD thesis, a few dozen papers and over 150 articles with it. At this point, my higher brain functions are not engaged at all when I use a bunch of common vim commands, they just happen. Documents I wrote with anything else have random :w in the middle. Chisnall goes on to talk about one specific vim feature: Persistent undo is one of my favourite features of vim. […] I don’t often need the persistent undo.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Unsung.
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