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



On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:16:29AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 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.

...and where might their work be available?

 - Dave

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