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Re: vi/vim/elvis/* (was "Re: Strip SIG on reply")



On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:31:59AM -0600, Eugene Lee wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:18:53AM -0500, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> : On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:58:41AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> : > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> : > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:01:25AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> : > > > ...and then David Yitzchak Cohen said...

> : Tru64's (BSD-based) VI stops at the start of the last word and starts
> : beeping away, like elvis.  Now, does that mean BSD's VIs all behave
> : like elvis?  Do we have any *BSD dudes here who can help out?
> 
> On FreeBSD 4.x, the shipping vi is actually nvi.  For the sake of this
> discussion, it behaves like Vim.

Well, that's no fair.  I was hoping for some sort of fossilized version
of BSD's original VI :-(

 - Dave

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