Re: vi/vim/elvis/* (was "Re: Strip SIG on reply")
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> 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 :-(
well, that's available - except that the original vi wouldn't compile on
anything recent, and the people who are interested in that have of course
made some fixes to get it to run, as well as update it.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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