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Re: Strip SIG on reply



On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:50:28AM -0600, David Champion wrote:
> > * On 2003.12.11, in <20031211065112.GB2823@xxxxxxx>,
> > *   "David Yitzchak Cohen" <lists+mutt_users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > > I use genuine vi, rather than vim.
> > >
> > > Really?  You use AT&T VI?  I never even knew the thing compiled on any
> > > modern UNIX. . .
> >
> > Yes. I use Solaris, whose vi descends from AT&T source, which is all I
> > meant. It's not a reimplementation of basic concepts with new features
> > and new misbehaviors.
>
> Have you ever tried elvis?  It tries to stick to VI behavior in most
> cases where it differs from VIM behavior, so it doesn't introduce too
> many POSIXisms ;-)

That's a complicated statement.  Which differences of vim relative to vi
are based on POSIX?

Offhand, the only interesting POSIX-based vi behavior that I recall is the
support for character classes in regular expressions.

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