Re: vi/vim/elvis/* (was "Re: Strip SIG on reply")
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2003-12-12, David Yitzchak Cohen <lists+mutt_users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:59:34AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> >
> > > > > Solaris vi goes to the end of the word.
> > > > > (It repeats the beeping - in vile I made that behavior optional).
> > > >
> > > > Okay, now this is getting even more interesting. . .
> > > >
> > > > Tru64's (BSD-based) VI stops at the start of the last word and starts
hmm - what version of Tru64? I just tested 4.0d and 5.1, both stop
at the end of the last word.
> > >
> > > A lot of Tru64 (OSF/1) is original implementation rather than being copied
> > > from older sources. While technically accurate, it tends to not have a
> > > lot of legacy quirks. (For the other extreme, see HPUX).
> >
> > Does anybody here have access to an HPUX VI? I don't.
>
> The HP-UX 10.20 vi goes to the end of the word.
for the sake of completeness(*), AIX also does this.
(*) ignoring extinct or soon to be extinct vendors...
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